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Commonwealth of Australia : Professor F. V. Theobald, 
M.A. 
Commonwealth of South Africa: Mr. Roland Trimen, 
M.A., FR.S., F.L.S. 
British Museum (Natural History) : The Hon. Walter 
Rothschild, D.Sc., F.Z.S., F.L.S. 
Royal Society and Linnean Society: Professor Poulton, 
D.Sc., F.R.S. 
Zoological Society : Mr. G. A. K. Marshall, F.Z.S, 
University of Cambridge ; Professor R. C. Punnett, M.A. 
University of Oxford: Dr. F, A. Dixey, M.A., M.D., 
F. R.S.; Professor Poulton, D.Sc., M.A., F.R.S.; Dr. Malcolm 
Burr, D.Sc. 
University of Edinburgh: Dr. R. Stewart MacDougall, 
M.A., D.Sc. 
University of London : Professor F. V. Theobald, M.A. 
Royal British Arboricultural Society : Mr. A. T. Gillanders. 
Agricultural Research Institute of Pusa, Bengal : Mr. F. 
]\1. Hewlett, M.A., while numerous other Local Bodies, Insti¬ 
tutes and Associations were also represented by Fellows and 
others : the total membership of the Congress amounting to 
292, of whom 67 were British subjects. 
Proceedings began with an informal reception on Sunday, 
July 31, at the Taverne Roy ale, given by the Entomological 
Society of Belgium, at which Professor Lameere, the President 
of the Congress, received the guests, assisted by the Baron 
G. de Crombrugghe de Piquendaele, ably supported by Madame 
Lameere, M. Severin, to whose energy and courtesy the success 
of the meeting was so largely due, Madame, and Mdlle. Severin, 
and a number of other Belgian entomologists and their friends, 
each member of the Congress receiving a prettily designed 
badge in white metal, and a free pass into the Exhibition 
for the week. 
But it was not until the following day that the session was 
opened in the Salles des Fetes, which had been put at the 
disposal of the Congress by the Committee of the Brussels 
Exhibition. Here Professor Lameere, Rector of the Fx'ee 
University of Brussels, delivered an address of welcome, and 
as soon as the subsequent formalities had been complied with, 
