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Papers. 

 The following papers were read : — 



" The Life History of Lonchaea chorea" by A. E. Camebon, 

 M.A., B.Sc. ; communicated by H. S. Leigh, F.E.S. 



" A few Observations on Mimicry," by W. J. Kaye, F.E.S. 



Wednesday, October 16th, 1912. 

 The Rev. F. D. Moricb, M.A., President, in the chair. 

 Portraits of f}x- Presidents. 



The President stated that in pursuance of a suggestion 

 approved by the Council, he had written to most of the sur- 

 viving ex- Presidents of the Society for their portraits, and had 

 already received several, viz. those of Lord Avebury, Dr. 

 David Sharp, Dr. Alfred Russel Wallace, Mr. Roland 

 Trimen, and Mr. C. O. Waterhouse. Photographs of the 

 President and of the late Mr. G. H. Verrall had also been 

 received, and Mr. J. H. Durrant had kindly presented 

 portraits of Messrs. W. Kirby, W. Spence and H. T. 

 Stainton, Presidents of an earlier day. 



Thanks were voted to the donors. 



Election of Fellows. 



The following were elected Fellows of the Society :— Mrs. 

 Ellen M. Waterfield, The Hospital, Port Sudan ; Messrs. 

 Patrick Alfred Buxton, M.B.O.U., Fairhill, Tonbridge, and 

 Trinity College, Cambridge; Alfred Noakes, The Hill, 

 Witley, Surrey ; Norman Denbigh Riley, 94, Drakefield-road, 

 Upper Tooting, S.W., and British Museum (Natural History), 

 S. Kensington, S.W. ; and Henry S.Wallace, 17, Kingsley- 

 place, Heaton-on-Tyne. 



Exhihitions. 

 European Butterflies. — Mr. E. B. Ashby exhibited a case 

 of Rhopalocera from the French, Swiss, and Italian Alps and 

 from Britain, including a specimen of Gonepteryx cleopatra, 

 bred in captivity from an egg laid in England. 



