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portion of the assets arising from the sale of our collections was 
expressly intended to meet the wants in our Library, and that these 
wants have been, in a great measure, supplied. Our Library is now, 
in fact, a very valuable one, while the Catalogue made by the inde- 
fatigable exertions of our Secretary increases its value and completes 
its usefulness. 
Our Meetings continue to be well attended, and the exhibitions of 
whatever relates to Entomology are on the increase ; at the same time 
our ‘ Transactions’ have probably never been so important, and cer- 
tainly never so extensive. ‘These, as you are aware, are supplied free 
to our country Members and at half-price to those resident in town. 
This privilege, I regret to say, is not so extensively used as might be 
expected; indeed, when we consider the sale of our ‘ Transactions’ 
among the public, and the desire evinced by many continental 
Societies, not exclusively Entomological, to obtain them in exchange, 
it seems strange that the sale should be so limited among our own 
_ Members. 
We have not to deplore the loss of any of our Members during 
the past year, but you will all have heard with deep regret of the 
death of Dr. Baikie. He was well known to us as a most assiduous 
Entomologist; and it is understood that he has amassed extensive 
collections of insects, some of which are now at Haslar. After nine 
years of exploration in the interior of Africa, he died a few weeks ago 
at Sierra Leone, just as he was returning to this country. 
It would not be possible, within the limits of an Address, to give 
more than the titles of the books and articles on Entomological sub- 
jects that have appeared during the past year. Therefore, omitting 
the usual lists of papers which may be found in the Natural-History 
journals and elsewhere, I shall confine myself to making a few obser- 
vations on various subjects, which, I think, may better occupy our 
attention for the quarter of an hour or so, during the intervals when 
the ordinary business of the Meeting will permit. Ido so with less 
reluctance, because, in due time, Gerstaecker’s Reports, each filling 
annually a closely-printed volume of nearly 300 pages, will put you in 
possession of everything that is printed or published all over the 
world relating to the entire sub-kingdom of the Annulosa. 
I would first call your attention to a paper on the sub-family Cory- 
nodinz, entitled “ Corynodinorum Recensio,” by the Rev, T. A. Mar- 
shall, in the ‘Proceedings of the Linnean Society’ (Zool. vol. viii. 
p- 25). In the exhaustive account of the bibliography of the group 
and the careful and conscientious treatment of the rich materials at 
