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amount of valuable information connected with the exhibits 
at the meetings, in addition to several short papers of interest. 
The attendance at the Ordinary Meetings has been, on 
almost every occasion, very large, and the exhibits during 
the year have certainly not fallen below the average either 
in number or interest. 
One of our former Presidents, Mr. F. Merrifield, again 
offered a handsome donation to the Travel Grant, an offer 
which has been generously renewed for the coming season. 
No other application having been received by the Council, and 
Mr. Merrifield having expressed his entire willingness that 
under those circumstances the grant should be given in two 
consecutive years to the same applicant, Mr. B. C. 8. Warren, 
one of our Fellows, was again the recipient, and went for an 
entomological tour in the Pyrenees and elsewhere in Southern 
France, 
A successful Conversazione was held on May the 17th, by 
the kind permission of the Linnean Society, in their Rooms 
at Burlington House, and the Council wishes again to put on 
record its grateful sense of their generosity, owing to which 
the subscriptions given to this object by our Fellows have 
not only paid the expenses of this year’s function, but have 
enabled the Treasurer to write off a debt of over £6, formerly 
charged to the general expenses of the Society, which had 
been previously incurred on a similar occasion. 
Our Society took its share in the successful attempt to 
prevent the contemplated alienation of a part of the ground 
assigned to the Natural History Museum, and we may con- 
gratulate ourselves, as well as the Museum authorities, on the 
issue. 
A second International Entomological Congress is to be 
held in Oxford in August next, from the 5th to the 10th, 
at which many of our Fellows will doubtless be present. 
The Treasurer reports that after carrying forward to 1912 
£15 15s. for subscriptions paid in advance, investing £47 5s. 
in Consols for three life compositions, and paying all bills 
rendered to date, there remains an available cash balance 
in favour of the Society of £32 5s. 11d. 
The subscriptions for the year are £11 11s. in excess of 
PROC, ENT. SOC. LOND., Vv. 1911. H 
