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ANNUAL MEETING. 
January 22, 1866. 
F, P. Pascor, Esq., President, in the chair. 
An Abstract of the Treasurer’s Accounts for 1865 was read by Mr. Wilkinson, one 
of the Auditors, and showed a balance in favour of the Society of £78 11s. 10d. 
The Secretary read the following :— 
Report of the Council for 1865. 
“In compliance with the Bye-Laws, the Council begs to present the following 
Report :— 
“‘ The loss of two of our Honorary Members will be regretted by all entomologists. 
Léon Dufour has been gathered to his fathers at a ripe and patriarchal age ; Science 
can but deplore the too early death of Hermann Rudolph Schaum. 
‘“* The recent increase in our numbers is a subject of warm congratulation. It is 
true that the changes which time inevitably works have deprived us of the aid of 
fifteen of our former supporters ; on the other hand we have, since the last Anniver- 
sary, elected forty-one Members and eighteen Annual Subscribers: the result is a 
clear addition of forty-four to the number of our Contributors. 
** The Council has revived a practice which had for some years fallen into disuse, 
of offering Prizes for Essays of sufficient merit on Economic Entomology. Three 
competitors have entered the lists, and the result of the competition will be to-night 
announced by the President. 
“The ‘ Transactions’ of the Society maintain their scientific value. The thanks 
of the Council are offered to those gentlemen whose liberality has provided or assisted 
in providing the expense of many of the Plates illustrative of the various Memoirs. 
The publications for 1864 were unprecedentedly extensive; they are exceeded by one- 
sixth by the five Parts of ‘ Transactions’ issued for 1865, ‘The Council desires in 
particular to call attention to the Trichoptera Britannica, in the first place as ren- 
dering accessible to students an Order of Insects to which little attention has hitherto 
beev paid, and in the second place as being a praiseworthy addition to the entomolo- 
gical literature of our own country. Whilst desiring to assist in the advance of Entomo- 
logy in its most general and catholic sense, and whilst repudiating all mere local 
prejudice, or intention of limiting our range to the narrow bounds of these islands, 
the Council is anxious to keep in view that primary duty which Nature imposes upon 
us as British Entomologists, namely, the cultivation of British Entomology. As 
regards the past, the fact that so little has recently appeared on British insects cannot 
be charged as a fault against the Executive of the Society, which has published every 
paper that has been offered to it; as regards the future, the Council declares 
emphatically that contributions to the knowledge of British Insects will always be 
received with welcome. 
