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 March 5, 1884. 



SPECIAL GENERAL MEETING. 



J. W. Dunning, Esq., M.A., F.L.B., &c., President, in the chair. 



Pursuant to a requisition presented to the President and Council, and 

 in accordance with chapter xix. of the Bye-Laws, a Special Meeting was 

 convened for this d;iy, to consider the desirability of obtaining a charter 

 incorporating the Society. 



Prof. Westwood, Hon. Life-President, proposed : — 



"That it is desirable to obtain for the Society a Uoyal Charter of 

 Incorporation." 



Mr. Stainton seconded the proposition. 



The meeting was addressed by Mr. Verrall, Mr. M'Lachlan, Mr. Slater, 

 and the President. 



On being put to the vote, tlio proposition was carried item. con. 



ORDINARY MEETING. 

 Prof. J. 0. Westwood, M.A., F.L.S., &c., Hon. Life-President, in the 

 chair. 



Donations to the Library were announced, and thanks voted to tho 



respective donors. 



Election of Members. 



The Rev. Alfred Fuller, MA. (East Pallant, Chichester), and Hamilton 

 C. J. Druce, Esq. (43, Circus Road, St. John's Wood, N.VV.), were balloted 

 for and elected Members of the Society. 



Exhibitions, dc. 



Mr. E. A. Fitch exhibited a large geodephagous larva (probably belonging 

 to a Leistus or a Nehria), which had recently been raised by a young man 

 at Maldon who was suffering from bronchitis. 



Mr. J. W. Dunning called attention to a paper entitled " Description 

 of a Pieris new to science — Fieris Spilleri, mihi," by A.J. Spiller, published 

 in • The Entomologist,' vol.xvii., p. 62. The species was taken in Natal in 

 1881 by Mr. Spiller, and he seems to have taken some pains to ascertain 

 that it was nondescript : — " I beg therefore to name it after myself." The 

 practice of naming a new species after its captor, simply because he first 

 captured it, was to be discouraged : " names taken from persons should not 

 be lightly applied ; this distinction should be reserved for those whose works 

 and scientific labours give them a claim to the admiration of posterity." 

 The story, at once ludicrous and melancholy, of (Ecophora Woodiella, as 

 narrated by Mr. Sidebotham (Entom., xvii., 52j, should be a warning to 

 nomenciators against the hasty imposition of personal names. If tlie 



