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the gentlemen appointed to manage the affairs of the Society. 

 If there be a name endeared to every British entomologist; 

 if there be a name respected both at home and abroad ; if 

 there be a name before which all party and illiberal feeling 

 would hide its face, and turn abashed and trembling away, it is 

 the name of him whom the Society has, with an accordant 

 voice, placed at its head as honorary president. The acting 

 president and the council are too well known to our readers, 

 either as authors or zealous collectors, or in many instances as 

 valued personal friends, to need any commendation of ours. 



Agreeably to an invitation sent to his entomological friends, 

 a party met at Mr. Children's, and, after due deliberation, 

 agreed that it was expedient to establish a Society to be called 

 the Entomological Society of London ; that periodical meet- 

 ings should be held to receive communications; that collections 

 and a library should be formed ; that communications of suffi- 

 cient interest should be published ; that all persons signifying 

 to the secretary their wish to join the Society before the 1st of 

 November should be original members, that all after that day 

 should be elected by ballot; that the annual subscription 

 should be one guinea ; that original members should pay on 

 entrance one guinea ; elected members two guineas ; and that 

 the first general meeting should be held at the Thatched 

 House, St. James's-street, on the 22d of May. 



A copy of these resolutions was sent round to all the 

 entomologists whose addresses could be obtained, and a meet- 

 ing was accordingly held, at which Mr. Stephens was called to 

 the chair. 



The minutes of the previous meeting were read and signed. 



Letters were read from Messrs. Griesbach, Wood, Babington, 

 Davis, Broome, E. Doubleday, and Raddon, requesting that 

 their names might be entered as original members ; Messrs. 

 Bowerbank, W. Christy, jun., J. F. Christy, Hanson, New- 

 man, and Walton, who were present, signified in writing their 

 wish to become original members ; the names of Messrs. 

 Wailes and Hoyer were handed in for the same purpose ; a 

 letter was read from the Rev. Mr. Kirby, declining to take 

 an active part in the management of the Society. 



The Chairman said it would be the next business of the 

 meeting to appoint a council to manage the affairs of the 

 Society, out of which council the higher officers must be 



