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ANNUAL MEETING. 

 January 17th, 1906. 



Mr. F. Merrifield, President, in the Chair. 



Mr. It. Wylie Lloyd, one of the Auditors, read the 

 Treasurer's Balance Sheet, showing a balance of £50 3s. 5d. 

 in the Society's favour. 



Mr. H. Kowland-Brown, one of the Secretaries, read the 

 following 



Report of the Council. 



During the Session 1905-1906 eleven Fellows have died, viz. 

 two Honorary Fellows, M. Henri de Saussure and Dr. Alpheus 

 S. Packard, and nine Fellows, Mr. Alfred Beaumont, Mr. 

 George Bowdler Buckton, F.R.S., M. A. Prudhomme de Borre, 

 Mr. John William Douglas, Lieut.-Colonel L. H. Loyd Irby, 

 Captain F. Wollaston Hutton, F.R.S., Mr. Alexander Fry, 

 Mr. H. W. Peal, and the Rev. Francis Augustus Walker, 

 D.D. ; seven Fellows have resigned, or have been struck off 

 the list, and twenty-three new Fellows have been elected. 



The number of Fellows deceased is, happily, not above the 

 average ; nor is the number of those who have resigned, or 

 for other causes have been removed from the list. The 

 number of Fellows elected, however, shows a considerable 

 falling off from last year, though with candidates nominated 

 and still to be elected it compares favourably with most 

 previous years. The Council, however, are of opinion that 

 the number might still be considerably augmented if Fellows 

 would bring somewhat more energetically to the knowledge of 

 their entomological friends the advantages of Fellowship of 

 the Society. 



At present the Society consists of twelve Honorary Fellows, 

 and five hundred and four Life and Subscribing Fellows, 

 making a total of five hundred and sixteen. These figures 

 show that, for the first time in the history of the Society, the 

 number of ordinary Fellows has reached five hundred, while 

 the total fellowship also surpasses that of any previous year. 



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