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Tt is intended that the different Orders shall be issued separately, but according 
to a uniform plan, so that the whole may eventually be combined, and form a 
permanent record, and as complete a Catalogue as present knowledge will allow, 
of the Insect Fauna of the United Kingdom. <A work of this magnitude must 
necessarily occupy a considerable time. In the case of the Coleoptera and Lepi- 
doptera, which have most frequently and recently been handled, there is less 
urgent need for a Catalogue than in the case of the other Orders, and it is hoped 
that a commencement may be made with the Hemiptera, Hymenoptera or 
Neuroptera. The Council cannot hold out the expectation of very speedy pro- 
gress; but the fact that Messrs. G. R. Crotch, Doubleday, Douglas, Eaton, Sir 
John Lubbock, M‘Lachlan, Rev. T. A. Marshall, Scott, Dr. Sharp, F. Smith, 
Stainton and Walker are already engaged upon various groups will be sufficient 
to show that the work bas been undertaken in earnest, and has been entrusted 
to competent workers. 
Finally, the Council for 1867 can only repeat what its predecessors have said 
before, that with greater resources the Society could do much greater good. The 
action of the Executive is continually impeded by want of funds. No one has 
yet been bold enough to suggest a larger annual contribution. To increase our 
income we wust increase the number of our Members. How long shall it be said 
that the Entomological Society of London, in spite of its pleasant Meetings, its 
useful Library, its costly publications, its almost microscopic subscription, can 
barely muster a couple of hundred supporters? 
January 27, 1868. 
The following were elected Members of the Council for 1868 :— Messrs. Bates, 
Dunning, Grut, Sir John Lubbock, M‘Lachlay, Salvin, G. S. Saunders, W. W. 
Saunders, F. Smith, Stainton, 8. Stevens, Trimen \and Westwood. 
The following Officers for 1868 were afterwards elected :—President, Mr. H. W. 
Bates; Treasurer, Mr. S. Stevens; Secretaries, Messrs. Dunning and M‘Lachlan ; 
Librarian, Mr. E. W. Jauson. 
Sir John Lubbock read the fullowing Address :— 
THE PRESIDENTS ADDRESS. 
GENTLEMEN, 
The labours of Entomologists have been neither less earnest 
nor less successful during the past year than in those which have pre- 
ceded it; and it would be utterly impossible for me, within the limits 
of our Annual Address, even if in other respects 1 were capable of 
doing so, to give an account of all the various works and memoirs on 
our Science which have appeared since our last Anniversary. 
We may fairly congratulate ourselves both on the number and the 
value of the communications read before our own Society, the power 
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