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Committees, elected either by the Committees, or directly by 

 the electing Societies. 



"Chas. 0. Waterhouse, Chairman. 

 (Signed) G. T. Bethune-Bakbr. 

 T. A. Chapman. 

 Jno. Hartley Durrant. 

 Louis B. Prout. 

 Hy. J. Turner. 

 George Wheeler." 



The President took exception to the form in which the 

 Report was drawn up, as being in the name of the Society 

 and not of the Committee. It was explained by several members 

 of the Committee that as there was only one meeting of the 

 Society before the Congress, it had beeu thought best to put 

 it in such a form that the Society could adopt and present it 

 without alteration in the wording, if they thought well to do 

 so, in order to avoid unnecessary waste of time. Eventually 

 Mr. G. A. K. ^Iarshall proposed and Mr. H. Rowland- 

 Brown seconded that the Report be adopted. 



Dr. G. B. Longstaff proposed and Mr. R. W. Lloyd 

 seconded as a preliminary amendment that the Report be 

 received. This was carried, and the Report having been read 

 again, the original motion was also carried almost unanimously. 



Mr. Bethune-Baker then proposed and Mr. Durrant 

 seconded that the Report be printed ; this, and a further 

 motion proposed by Dr. K. Jordan and seconded by Prof. 

 E. B. Poulton, that it be sent to Dr. Malcolm Burr, the 

 General Secretary of the Congress, were carried unanimously. 



Exhibitions. 

 A scarce Dipteron. — Mr. J. E. Collin exhibited a series 

 of thirteen specimens of Physocephala nigra., De G., the 

 largest British species of the Conopidae, caught on Studland 

 Heath (Dorsetshire), during the last week in May, when 

 Colonel Yerbury, Mr. C. J. Wainwright and himself took 

 some 24 specimens. He remarked upon the wide distribution 

 of the species over almost the whole of Europe, while in 

 Britain Colonel Yerbury had taken it in the extreme north- 

 west of Scotland ; though widely distributed, however, the 



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