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affect the final balance, which will be found to compare 

 satisfactorily with that of former years. 



There is one other matter in this connection that I ought 

 to refer to. In accordance with Rule 7, Section 7, the 

 entrance fees and compositions for lite membership have 

 been carried to a suspense account, the balance to the credit 

 of which now amounts, in round numbers, to twenty pounds, 

 and the Council are considering whether this amount should 

 not be invested in some sound security, under the authority 

 given in that rule, so that it may be earning some income, 

 however small, for the Society. 



Our membership shows an increase : we have elected ten 

 new members, two have resigned, and we have to deplore 

 the death of one honorary and two ordinary members. 



William Chaney took an active interest in the affairs of 

 the Society from the date of his election as one of its earliest 

 members. He served many years on its Council, and filled 

 the office of Librarian from 1882 to 1887. On his retirement 

 from active life a year or two later, he was unanimously 

 elected an honorary member under the rule empowering the 

 Council to elect "persons who have rendered special services 

 to the Society to-be honorary members." His earlier 

 studies were devoted chiefly to the Lepidoptera, the micro- 

 section of which order especially interested him. Later he 

 took up Hemiptera and Coleoptera, and he was a frequent 

 exhibitor of interesting examples of this latter order at our 

 meetings of a quarter of a century ago. He passed peacefully 

 away on November 3rd, 1906, at the ripe age of 78 years. 



Rev. Francis Henry Wood, M.A., was elected a member 

 of the Society in 1899. He was a frequent attendant at our 

 ordinary as well as field meetings, and his occasional exhibits 

 of, and papers on, the Arachnida (Spiders) Avill be in the 

 memory of many of our members. He died April 4th, 1906, 

 aged 60 years. 



F. G. Cannon was elected a member in 1903, but seldom 

 attended our meetings. His leisure time was devoted almost 

 exclusively to the study of Ornithology and Entomology, the 

 butterflies of Britain being especial favourites of his. He 

 died June 7th, 1906, at the early age of ^j. 



Three other entomologists, more or less intimately con- 

 nected with our Society, have passed away during the year, 

 to whose memory I should like to say a word. 



The Rev. Joseph Greene died in the earlier part of the 

 year at the good old age of 82. He was a member 

 of this Society from 1889 until 1903, when he resigned his 



