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logical Society. The Officers, Council and Fellows unani- 

 mously associated themselves with the forcible yet dignified 

 Eeply published in The Times of Nov. 4th to the Declaration 

 by certain German Professors on the responsibility of Great 

 Britain for the War, and the Society has, again by a unani- 

 mous vote, opened its library and its meetings during the 

 War to Entomologists of allied nations who are members 

 of a recognised Society, and temporarily resident in this 

 country, on the same footing as ordinary Fellows, except for 

 the right of voting. 



The Darwin Medal has this year been awarded by the 

 Royal Society to an ex-President of our own. Professor E. B. 



POULTON. 



Our Transactions for this year form a Volume of some 

 540 pages, containing 20 papers by the following Authors : — 

 The President, Messrs. G. C. Champion, A.L.S., F.Z.S., 

 F.E.S., (2), T. A. Chapman, M.D., F.Z.S., F.E.S., (5), E. 



DUKINFIELD-JONES, F.Z.S., F.E.S., J. HARTLEY DURRANT, 



F.E.S. (in conjunction with the Rev. F. D. Morice, F.E.S.), 

 F. W. Edwards, B.A., F.E.S., Miss Margaret E. Fountaine, 

 F.E.S., Messrs. E. Ernest Green, F.E.S., Geoffrey Meade- 

 Waldo, M.A., F.E.S., Edward Meyrick, B.A., F.R.S., 

 F.E.S., Rev. F. D. Morice, M.A., F.E.S. (in conjunction with 

 Mr. J. Hartley Durrant, F.E.S.), Kenneth J. Morton, 

 F.E.S., R. C. L. Perkins, M.A., D.Sc, F.E.S., Frank H. 

 Taylor, F.E.S., and Chas. 0. Waterhouse, I.S.O., F.E.S. 



Of these, nine refer to the Lepidoptera, five to the Hymeno- 

 ptera, two each to the Coleoptera and Diptera, and one each 

 to the Homoptera and Odonata. While the papers are not 

 so numerous nor the Transactions quite so voluminous as of 

 late years, they are illustrated by no less than 92 plates, 

 consisting of 8 chromo-lithographs, 1 three-colour plate, 1 black- 

 and-white lithograph, 67 half-tone plates, and 14 line blocks. 

 The entire cost of 2 chromos and 5 line blocks was contributed 

 by Mr. F. D. Godman, and the entire cost of 8 half-tones, 

 as well as the drawings and half the cost of reproduction of 

 4 chromos and 40 half-tones by Dr. Chapman; the drawings 

 or photographs for 1 chromo were given by Mr. E. Dukinfield- 

 JoNES, for 11 half-tones by the President, for 2 half-tones by 



