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ANNUAL MEETING, 

 Jauuary 21, 1885. 



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



An abstract of tlie Treasurer's accounts for 1884 was read by Mr. H. T. 

 Stainton, one of the Auditors. 



The Secretary read the following : — 



Keport of the Council for 1884. 



In accordance with the Bye-Laws, the Council begs to present the 

 following Report : — 



During the year 1884 the Society has lost, by death, one Honorary 

 Member (Prof. J. C. Schiodte, of Copenhagen), and two Ordinary Members 

 (Sir Sidney Saunders and Sir Arthur Scottj ; the former of whom was an 

 Original Member, a former President, and at the time of his death one of 

 our Vice-Presidents. The names of five other Members have been 

 removed, by resignation or otherwise. Sixteen new Members have been 

 elected, and two Subscribers have become full Members. 



The list of Honorary Members has received three additions ; Dr. Fritz 

 Miiller, Dr. A. S. Packard, and Baron Osten-Sacken having been chosen to 

 fill the places vacated by Prof. Zeller, Dr. Leconte, and Prof. Schiodte. 



The Council has great pleasure in announcing that Mr. W. B. Spence, 

 one of our few remaining Original Members, has presented to the Society 

 the Entomological Library of his father, the late Mr. Wm. Spence. This 

 addition will serve as a welcome reminiscence of our former Honorary 

 Member, the co-adjutor with the Rev. Wm. Kirby in the preparation of the 

 famous ' Introduction to Entomology.' 



The Transactions for the year (exclusive of the Proceedings) form a 

 volume of 517 pages, containing twenty-five memoirs contributed by 

 nineteen authors, and illustrated with fifteen plates, of which four are 

 coloured. The Council has to thank Lord Walsingham for the presentation 

 of Plate 4 (North- American Tortricidae). To give effect to the Resolution 

 that all Members shall be entitled to receive the Transactions, it has been 

 thought advisable to print an additional hundred copies, and the style has 

 been altered by printing the descriptive portions of papers in a smaller 

 type. This necessitates some little additional expenditure, but the Council 

 trusts that the alterations will commend themselves to the Society 

 generally. 



