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considerable cash balance in hand, and large assets due to the 

 Society, while every current claim whatever had been dis- 

 charged. 



The President, in his concluding speech, enlarged upon the 

 very flourishing state of the Society, forty-four members having 

 been added to it during the past year, while only four resigna- 

 tions had taken place ; and he was happy to say no loss had 

 occurred from death. Sixty-three publications had been pre- 

 sented to the Society in the course of the year, including 

 many from Literary and Scientific Societies. He lamented, at 

 considerable length, the loss the science had sustained in the 

 death of Dr. Leach. He enlarged on the great service that 

 had been rendered, in the preservation of the beautiful park of 

 Brussels, from hints given by one of the members, (Mr. 

 Spence ;) and deprecated the conduct of our own Commis- 

 sioners of Woods and Forests, who appeared to listen to the 

 advice of interested timber-speculators, rather than to such as 

 would arrest the ravages of the same insect, now rapidly pro- 

 ceeding with the work of destruction in Kensington Gardens. 

 He finally recommended a MS. account to be kept of all En- 

 tomological publications. 



The speech was received with much applause, and ordered 

 to be printed. 



The usual votes of thanks were then passed. 



The Secretary announced, that the Council had agreed 

 upon " Athalia cmtifolia, or the Blacks of Turnips," as the 

 subject of the prize essay for the year 1837. — None had been 

 received on the Coccus of the pine apple, the subject proposed 

 last year. 



The Third Part of the Transactions of the Society, being 

 the completion of Volume I., was laid upon the table. 



Sitting of the 6th of February, 1837. 

 J. F. Stephens, President, in the Chair. 



After the usual business had been gone through, a black 

 letter volume was exhibited, with an accompanying letter from 

 Mr. Bohn the bookseller, presenting it to the Society as a 

 matter of curiosity, being rendered of no value to him by the 

 perforations of the little insect that attacks books, which had 



