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The death of the great Lacordaire gives a mournful distinction to the 

 past year, and has created a vacancy in the roll of our Honorary Members. 

 We have besides lost Haliday and three other Members by death, and eight 

 by resignation. As the elections have been but nine, it follows that the 

 number of our Members has slightly decreased. 



No composition in lieu of annual subscription has been received during 

 the year. Consequently the reserve fund remains without increase, and the 

 expenditure on the Library has been small. 



The renewed offer of Prizes for essays on economical or structural 

 Entomology has not evoked the competition which the Council desired. 

 No prize has been awarded. 



The Transactions and Proceedings for 1870 will form a volume of 

 600 pages, with seven plates, of which two are coloured. Thanks are duo 

 to Major Parry, Mr. Butler and Mr. Pascoe, for the drawing and engraving 

 of six out of the seven plates. 



The financial position may be exhibited by the following Table : — 



£301 



£304 



Thus, in round numbers, the contributions of Members have just paid 

 for the annual volume of Transactions ; and the amount received from sale 

 of our publications has slightly exceeded the rent, office and library 

 expenses. In a word, the ordinary income of the Society has sufficed to 

 meet the ordinary expenditure. 



For its extraordinary expenditure, the Council has had to depend mainly 

 on special donations — not only for the publication of the List of British 

 Neuroptera, the first instalment of the proposed General Catalogue of 

 indigenous Insects — but also for the completion of a task to which reference 

 was made in the previous Report, the colouring of the plates which 

 illustrate the " Third Series " of the Transactions. As the last act of his 

 Secretaryship, Mr. Dunning has requested pei^mission to hand over to the 

 Society, all coloured and ready for sale, the entire stock of the eight 

 volumes of Transactions which have appeared during his nine years tenure 

 of that office. 



23 January, 1871. 



