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necessity — of obtaining an addition of (sav) fifty to our mnnbers. It is by indi- 

 vidual exertions, rather than by collective action, that such a result is likelv to be 

 attained. 



January 25, 1869. 



The followinf^ gentlemen were elected Members of the Council for 1869: — 

 Messrs. H. W. Bates, Hon. Thoma's De Grey, Dunning, Grut, M'Lachlan, Pascoe, 

 Salviu, G. S. Saunders, F. Smith, Slainton, S. Stevens, A. R. Wallace and Woruiald. 



The following Officers for 1869 were afterwards elected : — President, Mr. H. W. 

 Bates ; Treasurer, Mr. S. Stevens ; Secretaries, Messrs. Dunning and M'Lachlan ; 

 Librarian, Mr. E. W. Jauson. 



The following Address (in the absence of the President, whose official duties com- 

 pelled his attendance elsewhere) was read by the Secretary : — 



THE PRESIDENT'S ADDRESS. 



Gentlemen, 



According to the custom observed by us in common with 

 other scientific societies, which requires that the person occupying 

 the honourable position of President shall give, at the Anniversary 

 Meeting, some account of the progress made during the year in the 

 especial branch of Science cultivated by the body over whom he 

 presides, I will now endeavour to fulfil this portion of my duties by 

 submitting to you a sketch of some of the more interesting subjects 

 connected with Entomology that have called for attention during the 

 past year. 



Commencing with our own Society, it is my duty first to mention 

 the Members lost to us by death, since our last Anniversary. 



We have to regret the loss to ourselves and Science of Professor 

 C. A. Boheman, of Stockholm, one of our Honorary Members, who 

 died on the 2nd of November last, at the age of seventy-two. The 

 principal works of this learned Entomologist were published in his 

 riper years. They relate exclusively to the systematic department of 

 our study, and ai'e distinguished for the unvarying amplitude, uni- 

 formity and conscientiousness of the specific descriptions, written in 

 Latin. His ' Insecta CafTrarice,' a description of the Coleopterous 

 insects collected by the indefatigable naturalist and elephant hunter 

 Wahlberg, during a long series of years, was commenced in 1848, 



