( aig) 
During the year 1881 the Society has lost four members by death, 
Messrs. John Gould, F'.R.S. (an original member), William Garneys, John 
Gray, and Count G. de Mniszech, and one subscriber, Mr. Ii. M. Janson. 
Three members and one subscriber have resigned, while the names of two 
members have been removed under the Bye-Laws (c. xiv. 3). Kleven new 
members and subscribers have been elected, thus exactly balancing the 
number of losses. 
The Society now consists of— 
10 Honorary Members. 
36 Life Members. 
163 Ordinary Members. 
34 Annual Subscribers. 
In April, 1880, Miss G. Ormerod authorised the Council to offer two 
prizes of £5 each; (1) for the best Essay on the early stages of the life- 
history of Sitones lineatus, S. crinitus, or other injurious species, commonly 
known by the name of “ Pea weevil”; (2) for the best Kssay on methods of 
prevention or remedy for Insect attacks upon Pine or Fir plantations, with 
special reference to ‘‘ weevils or sawflies.” The Council desires to thank 
Miss Ormerod for her offer, but has to announce, with regret, that no 
essays have been received. 
It is with considerable satisfaction that the Council has obtained, in 
three reports contributed by members of the Society, valuable information 
on practical subjects in which the Colonial Office were interested, and on 
which they had addressed the Society. The matters enquired into were 
the presence of the dreaded Phylloxera of the vine in Victoria, and the 
economy of an insect whose larva had proved very destructive to the eggs 
of locusts in the Troad, and now found as a powerful natural ally in 
attempting to prevent the devastating locust attacks in Cyprus. The 
information supplied to the Colonial Office cannot fail to be of practical 
use in the countries concerned, and the Society must congratulate itself on 
the way in which the Government has asked and received its help. 
Altogether, during the past year, the Society has quite maintained its 
high position of usefulness. Increased interest has apparently been taken 
in its meetings, as evidenced by the published ‘ Proceedings,’ while the 
Attendance-book shows that they have been remarkably well supported, the 
average attendance exceeding twenty-eight. ‘The volume of ‘Transactions’ 
is one of the largest ever issued by the Society in any one year. It contains 
thirty-nine memoirs, contributed by seventeen authors, extending to 648 
pages, exclusive of the ‘ Proceedings,’ and is illustrated with the unpre- 
cedented number of twenty-two plates, of which three are coloured. Many 
of the memoirs are of special scientific interest; with some satisfaction the 
Council begs to point out that five or six of these relate to British Ento- 
