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adjacent islands, 638 British, and 3724 from Continental Europe (in- 

 cluding 3000 well-named specimens). 



During the like period the classification of the Museum collections 

 has progressed satisfactorily, and several Catalogues of considerable 

 portions have appeared. 



The collection also of the East India House has received conside- 

 rable additions, and an arrangement completed, in which careful co- 

 pies of Dr. Horsfield's series of drawings of the transformations of the 

 Javanese species have been placed side by side with the arranged spe- 

 cimens, rendering this portion of the collection extremely interesting 

 and instructive. 



With reference to the numerical progress of our Society, I have to 

 report to you that during the past year we have elected as an Hono- 

 rary Foreign Member, Dr. Johan Wilhelm Zetterstedt, of Lund, in the 

 place of the late M. Wiedemann ; and I am sure the Society will 

 agree that no other foreign entomologist could have been selected 

 more worthy to supply the place in our limited list of Honorary Mem- 

 bers. Twelve new members and four subscribers have also joined 

 the Society during the past year ; whilst, on the contrary, one mem- 

 ber and one subscriber have resigned. The names of two other sub- 

 scribers have been struck from our list, being defaulters ; and we have 

 lost two of our original members by death, namely, John Fell Christy 

 and Robert H. Spence, Esqs. I am not awai'e that Mr. Christy had 

 published any entomological papers ; and I believe the only memoir 

 by the latter gentleman, is the description of Carabus Cristoforii, in 

 the 2nd vol. of the ' Ann ales ' of the French Entomological Society. 

 Mr. Robert Spence was, however, a zealous collector; and during the 

 past year he forwarded to our Society the two cases of American insects 

 above referred to, collected by himself near Baltimore, as well as the 

 notices relative to the appearance of Cicada septemdecim, recorded 

 in our 'Proceedings' for September, 1851 (pp. 80 and 103). He died 

 at Cold Springs, a watering-place near Baltimore, where he had been 

 spending the past autumn and winter for his health. Our members 

 will, I am sure, participate in the grief which so unexpected a loss 

 will occasion to his father, our most excellent Honorary Member, W. 

 Spence, Esq., and other relatives. 



We have moreover to lament the loss of several naturalists and en- 

 tomologists, who have more or less contributed, during their several 

 careers, in extending the bounds of our favourite science. I regret 

 that space will not allow me to do that justice to their merits to which 

 they are so fully entitled. 



