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The following officers for 1867 were afterwards elected, namely :—President, Sir 
John Lubbock, Bart.; Treasurer, Mr. 8. Stevens; Secretaries, Mr. Dunning and 
Dr. Sharp; and Librarian, Mr. Janson. 
The President read the following Address :— 
“THE PRESIDENT’S ADDRESS. 
GENTLEMEN,— 
The Reports made annually to the Society by the Council 
relieve the President from the duty of addressing you on our internal 
affairs, our progress in the past year, or our prospects for the future ; 
leaving him, therefore, the more free to bring before you the state of 
our Science itself, the principal observations which have been 
recorded, the most important works which have been published, and 
the most interesting discoveries which have been made during the 
past year. 
So rapid, however, is the progress of Entomological Science, that 
it would be impossible for your President, even if he had the requisite 
knowledge—which I have not—to give you within the limits of an 
Address anything like an exhaustive resumé of the entomological 
literature for the past year. This is the less to be regretted 
because the reports of Pr. Gerstiicker and Mr. Dallas, in Wiegmann’s 
‘Archiv’ and the ‘ Zoological Record,’ leave little to be desired in 
this respect, and we owe those two gentlemen much gratitude for the 
admirable and careful manner in which their reports are worked 
out. 
The prize offered by the Council for the best Essay on the 
anatomy, economy, or habits of any insect, or group of insects, 
especially serviceable or obnoxious to mankind, has been again 
awarded to Dr. Wallace, whom I have to congratulate on having 
carried off the prize in two successive years. His memoir on 
Ailanthiculture, to which the prize was awarded last year, forms the 
second Part of the fifth Volume of our ‘Transactions.’ The other 
Parts published during the year 1866 have been no less than four in 
number, and contain the following papers :— . 
1. Characters of a new Genus and Species of Chalcidites. By 
Mr. F. Walker. 
2. Remarks on Capt. Hutton’s paper “On the Reversion and 
Restoration of the Silkworm.” By Capt. J. Mitchell. 
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