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the privilege, conceded for many years past, of allowing our 

 meetings to be held in their rooms at Burlington House. 



Nevertheless, although closer communion has not proved 

 feasible, it would seem only consistent with those amicable 

 tendencies which these initiatives have served to develope, that 

 more intimate relations should be established between the two 

 Societies, united as they are by so many ties of affinity and 

 ancestral origin. When, therefore, we maj' be enabled to offer 

 corresponding advantages by rendering our Library more gene- 

 rally accessible, the same principles which have actuated a system 

 of reciprocity, as regards the libraries of several other Societies, 

 may not impossibly be extended to us. In any case, however, it 

 behoves us to provide, for the convenience of our members, a 

 more complete printed Catalogue than we now possess in those 

 issued in 1861 and 1864. It would also be desirable to render 

 our "Proceedings" more valuable, by inserting therein, as prac- 

 tised by the French Entomological Societ}^ not only the titles of 

 the serial publications presented from time to time, but also a 

 bibliographical summary of their contents; and if, moreover, a 

 classified list of all the Papers published in our Transactions 

 during the first forty years (from 1835 to 1874 inclusive) were 

 available for purchase, to be continued at the close of each 

 decennial period, this might be expected to present many 

 attractions, and concentrate the attention of Entomologists in 

 this country to our Society as to a common focus. 



We have to thank our Secretary, Mr. Grut, and his coadjutors, 

 for the diligence displayed in the issue of the respective Parts of 

 our Transactions during the past year with unexampled prompti- 

 tude : the first being on the table at our meeting of the 2nd 

 March, together with the Index-part of the previous year; the 

 second, on the 4th May; the third, on the 6th July; and the 

 fourth, on the 2nd of this month ; leaving only the supplementary 

 details to be supplied, together with five additional Plates, — 

 making a total of eleven, whereof six are coloured. 



When, indeed, it is considered that these Transactions are 

 supplied and forwarded gratis to all members and subscribers 

 residing beyond fifteen miles from London, and that all others 

 can obtain a copy at half the price of publication, it would seem 

 that, if these advantages were sufficiently known to be duly 

 appreciated, our "List of Members" should constitute a Postal- 



