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  landlord, 
  — 
  and 
  we 
  have 
  experienced 
  both 
  these 
  contingencies 
  during 
  

   the 
  past 
  year, 
  — 
  no 
  one 
  will 
  deny 
  that 
  it 
  is 
  the 
  duty 
  of 
  the 
  government 
  

   to 
  afford 
  a 
  fostering 
  protection 
  to 
  such 
  Societies, 
  — 
  the 
  weaker 
  ones 
  

   requiring 
  such 
  support 
  even 
  more 
  imperatively 
  than 
  the 
  more 
  liberally 
  

   endowed 
  ones. 
  The 
  Entomological 
  Societies 
  of 
  France 
  and 
  Stettin 
  

   receive 
  pecuniary 
  aid 
  from 
  their 
  respective 
  governments, 
  and 
  the 
  

   former 
  holds 
  its 
  meetings 
  in 
  the 
  Hotel 
  de 
  Ville, 
  free 
  from 
  charge. 
  

   Under 
  such 
  circumstances, 
  the 
  influential 
  members 
  of 
  our 
  body 
  ought 
  

   to 
  use 
  every 
  effort 
  to 
  obtain 
  so 
  desirable 
  a 
  result, 
  even 
  if 
  at 
  some 
  minor 
  

   inconvenience 
  to 
  the 
  Society 
  at 
  large. 
  

  

  As 
  regards 
  the 
  number 
  of 
  our 
  Members, 
  I 
  have 
  to 
  inform 
  you 
  that 
  

   during 
  the 
  past 
  year 
  four 
  new 
  Members 
  and 
  five 
  Subscribers, 
  together 
  

   with 
  two 
  Corresponding 
  Members, 
  have 
  been 
  added 
  to 
  our 
  lists 
  ; 
  and 
  

   that 
  on 
  the 
  other 
  hand 
  we 
  have 
  lost 
  one 
  Member 
  by 
  death, 
  three 
  

   Subscribers 
  have 
  resigned, 
  and 
  one 
  has 
  been 
  removed 
  from 
  the 
  list, 
  as 
  

   a 
  defaulter. 
  I 
  had 
  hoped 
  that 
  the 
  Bye-law 
  which 
  allowed 
  the 
  intro- 
  

   duction 
  of 
  a 
  limited 
  number 
  of 
  Associates, 
  would 
  have 
  had 
  the 
  eff'ect 
  

   of 
  bringing 
  into 
  our 
  sphere 
  the 
  most 
  praiseworthy 
  of 
  our 
  practical 
  bre- 
  

   thren, 
  whose 
  humble 
  means 
  ought 
  not 
  to 
  be 
  a 
  bar 
  to 
  their 
  admission 
  

   among 
  us. 
  I 
  can 
  but 
  regret 
  that 
  this 
  Bye-law 
  has 
  been 
  rendered 
  a 
  

   dead 
  letter. 
  In 
  a 
  science 
  which 
  numbers 
  so 
  few 
  among 
  its 
  cultiva- 
  

   tors, 
  I 
  hold 
  disunion 
  to 
  be 
  very 
  much 
  akin 
  to 
  untying 
  the 
  bundle 
  of 
  

   sticks 
  in 
  the 
  fable. 
  

  

  Our 
  meetings 
  have 
  continued 
  to 
  be 
  extremely 
  well 
  attended, 
  and 
  

   the 
  exhibition 
  of 
  rare 
  and 
  new 
  species 
  of 
  insects, 
  of 
  different 
  orders, 
  

   has 
  rendered 
  them 
  interesting 
  to 
  our 
  general 
  members. 
  I 
  cannot 
  

   however 
  avoid 
  expressing 
  the 
  regret 
  which 
  I 
  feel 
  in 
  the 
  non-fulfilment 
  

   of 
  the 
  anticipations 
  which 
  1 
  had 
  formed 
  as 
  to 
  the 
  effects 
  of 
  the 
  work- 
  

   ing 
  of 
  our 
  Society. 
  Comparisons 
  are 
  said 
  to 
  be 
  odious 
  ; 
  but 
  I 
  can- 
  

   not 
  shut 
  my 
  eyes 
  to 
  the 
  vast 
  difference 
  which 
  exists 
  between 
  the 
  

   publications 
  of 
  the 
  French 
  and 
  German 
  Societies 
  and 
  those 
  of 
  our 
  

   fellow-countrymen, 
  many 
  of 
  whom, 
  although 
  calling 
  themselves 
  ento- 
  

   mologists, 
  cannot 
  justly 
  claim 
  a 
  higher 
  rank 
  than 
  that 
  of 
  collectors, 
  

   whilst 
  the 
  higher 
  investigations 
  into 
  the 
  comparative 
  or 
  simple 
  ana- 
  

   tomy 
  of 
  insects, 
  internal 
  and 
  external, 
  the 
  investigation 
  of 
  their 
  natu- 
  

   ral 
  economy 
  and 
  transformations, 
  and 
  the 
  inquiries 
  into 
  their 
  natural 
  

   relations, 
  have 
  been 
  almost 
  untouched 
  by 
  our 
  Members. 
  The 
  publi- 
  

   cation 
  of 
  local 
  lists 
  of 
  species, 
  which 
  is 
  carried 
  to 
  a 
  very 
  great 
  extent, 
  

   is, 
  it 
  is 
  true, 
  practically 
  useful 
  to 
  the 
  individual 
  captor 
  and 
  his 
  imme- 
  

   diate 
  correspondents, 
  but 
  they 
  appear 
  to 
  me 
  to 
  be 
  hardly 
  fitted 
  for 
  

   publication, 
  unless 
  either 
  their 
  aim 
  is 
  to 
  extend 
  our 
  knowledge 
  of 
  the 
  

  

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