PKESIDENT'S ADDKESS. 



Gentlemen, 



In addressing you on the Anniversary Meeting of a new 

 year, in accordance with time-honoured custom, I must premise 

 that the records of the one which has just terminated exhibit no 

 lack of energy in our ranks ; whether we look to the memoirs 

 which have ajjpeared in our Transactions ; to the various contri- 

 butions made to the publications of other Societies and periodicals 

 by many of our members ; or to those separate works to which I 

 shall specially advert in the sequel ; — aU evincing unflagging zeal 

 and activity in the literature and progress of Entomology. 



The Eeport which the Council has laid before you, and which 

 has already made you fully acquainted with all the details of our 

 financial administration, renders it needless for me to enter into 

 any of these matters. 



The want of more suitable and extended accommodation for 

 our Library has long been felt, and would, doubtless, have more 

 forcibly impressed itself upon our attention at an earUer period, 

 but for the expectations we had been led to entertain from a 

 project of affiliation with the Linnean Society, to which your 

 attention was invited by a circular in the month of April last, 

 whereby the opinion of our members was solicited on the 

 preliminary details of such an arrangement, as therein set forth. 



A large majority of our Society having signified their assent 

 to this project, it remained for our Council, in conjunction with 

 that of the Linnean Society, to discuss the preliminaries of such 

 a bond of union; but it having been subsequently ascertained 

 that no disposable space was available for our books, the project 

 has necessarily been abandoned. It therefore becomes mcumbent 

 upon us to provide for our requirements in some other way; tlie 

 Linnean Society having, in the meantime, courteously extended 



