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ANNUAL MEETING. 

 Wednesday, January 19th, 1916. 



The Honble. N. Charles Kothschild, M.A., F.L.S., F.Z.S. 

 President, in the Chair. 



The Balance Sheet was read by Mr. C. J. Gahan, one of 

 the Auditors, and adopted on the motion of Mr. Stanley 

 Edwards, seconded by Mr. Frisby. 



The Rev. G. Wheeler, one of the Secretaries, then read 

 the following 



Report of the Council. 



One vacancy has occurred in the ranks of the Honorary 

 Fellows during 1915, by the death of Mons. J. H. Fabre, and 

 the Society has also learnt of the death of another Honorary 

 Fellow, Hofrath von Wattenwyl, which took place in 1914. 

 The vacancies thus created have been filled by the appoint- 

 ment of Prof. Antonio Berlese of Florence, and Dr. L. 0. 

 Howard of Washington, U.S.A. 



Our losses by death in the roll of our ordinary Fellows are 

 phenomenally few, amounting to two only ; one of them. Prof. 

 Meldola, was a former President of the Society, the other, 

 Col. Neville IManders, gave his life for his country in the 

 Dardanelles. The Society has also learnt during the past 

 year of the death of the Hon. H. E. Cox, of Jamaica, which 

 took place towards the end of 1914, but this is balanced by 

 the restoration to our roll of Mr. Thomas Dobson, whose 

 death (owing to a similarity of name) was announced last 

 year, but who is still happily an active Fellow of our Society. 

 Eight names have been removed from the list, two less than 

 the previous year, and we have received eleven resignations, 

 which is only two in excess of 1914, and even of these some 

 may be expected to be only temporary. It is, however, in 

 the number of admissions that the war has hit us hardest; 



