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Wednesday, March 16th, 1910. 
Dr. F. A. Dixey, M.A., M.D., F.K.S., President, in the 
Chair. 
Address to the Entomological Society of Russia. 
Dr. Malcolm Burr, D.Sc., gave the following account of 
his reception in St. Petersburg by the Entomological Society 
of Bussia, to whom he had presented the Addre.ss of Congratula¬ 
tion, published at the last meeting. 
The Entomological Society of Ptussia, one of the oldest 
scientific bodies in the Empire, celebrated its Jubilee on 
February 26th (Old Style) = March 11th (New Style), in the 
Ministry of Agriculture, at St. Petersburg. 
The chair was taken by the venerable President, Piitr 
Petrovich Semenoff-Tian-Shansky, the eminent explorer and 
traveller in Central Asia, discoverer of the Tian-Shan Moun¬ 
tains, President also of the Russian Imperial Geographical 
Society, and member of the Imperial State Council. There 
were also present Mr. Kozloff, another distinguished explorer 
in Central Asia, Colonel G. V. Kakhovsky, an enthusiastic 
coleopterist who has made important collections in Abyssinia, 
Professors Rimsky-Korsakoll, Inostranstseff, and Shimkievich; 
Academicians Borodnik, and Karpinski, Prince Massulsky, Mr. 
Dostoievsky, secretary of the Russian Imperial Geographical 
Society and kinsman of the famous author, Messrs. Alferaki, 
Adelung, Bianki, Skarikoff, KuznetsofP, and E. E. Groum- 
Grgimailo, lepidopterist and zoogeographer. 
The President opened the proceedings by reading a letter 
from H.I.H. Grand Duke Nicolas Mikhailovich, regretting 
his inability to attend personally, and sending greetings to 
the Society with his congratulations upon its fiftieth anni¬ 
versary. The President then greeted the Society, and 
especially congratulated Baron Th, R. von Osten-Sacken, the 
only surviving original member. 
One of the Hon. Secretaries, Mr. G. G. Jacobson, then gave 
a brief outline of the Society’s history, after which the Vice- 
President, Mr, Andre Petrovich Semenoff-Tian-Shansky, one 
