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plates, oue entirely and another partially coloured. The Society is indebted 
to Major Parry for the drawing and engraving of the plate illustrating his 
paper on Lucanoid Coleoptera. Six of the above papers, comprising 
230 pages (one-third of the volume), are descriptive of the Coleoptera of the 
Japanese Archipelago, from the collections of Mr. George Lewis. 
The statement of Receipts and Payments shows the following result : — 
Receipts. 
Contributions of Members aC208 
Sale of Publications 7(i 
Interest on Consols 5 
^289 
Payments. 
Library . ^ £ 4 
Publications 226 
Eent and Office Expenses 59 
Tea at Meetings 13 
^£302 
Thus the expenditure has exceeded the receipts by about £13, which will 
be readily accounted for by the increased size of the volume of ' Trans- 
actions,' being the largest yet published by the Society in any one year. 
And, in addition to this, the Council have issued a fourth part of the 
' General Catalogue of Insects Indigenous to the British Islands,' com- 
prising the Hyraenopterous group, Oxyura, by the Rev. T. A. Marshall. 
The cash balance of £15 Cs. Id. at the beginning of the year is reduced to 
£2 Is. 3d. 
The necessity of increased accommodation for the Library, which has far 
outgrown that at present provided for it, as well as for a room for the 
meetings of the Society, has now become a matter for the anxious con- 
sideration of the Council. It is true that the Linnean Society has kindly 
renewed the permission for the members to meet in these rooms during the 
present session, but at the end of that time accommodation must be found 
elsewhere. An application has been forwarded to the Chief Commissioner 
of Works, with a view to ascertain whether the Society could be allowed to 
occupy Apartments in BurUngton House, and the Council have notified 
their intention of giving up the occupancy of their present rooms at 
12, Bedford Row, at Midsummer next. It is hoped that before that time 
the question whether the Government will provide accommodation may be 
favourably decided ; otherwise it will be for the consideration of the Council 
as to what further steps may be necessary. 
20th January, 1874. 
The following gentlemen were elected Members of Council for 1874 : — 
Sir Sidney Smith Saunders, IMessrs. "W. C Boyd, Dunning, Grut, Meldola, 
Moore, M'Lachlan, F. Smith, Staiutou, Stevens, Verrall, Jenner "Weir and 
Professor Westwood. 
The President read the following Address : — 
