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bear testimony, except with regard to those few months that 

 were "before his time." He rejoiced that they had still as an 

 active officer one of the founders of the Society in the person 

 of their Hon. Curator, Mr. West. 



Mr. Tutt, in supporting the vote of thanks to Mr. Adkin, 

 both for his services in the chair and for his Presidential 

 address, thought it was a good thing that he had dealt with 

 matters affecting them rather as a "natural history" than 

 as a purely " entomological " society. He was pleased that 

 Mr. Adkin had reviewed the history of the Society and had 

 placed on record the main features of its growth. 



Mr. Adkin, in acknowledging the vote, said that he 

 regarded societies such as their own as useful institutions, 

 in that they were, if he might so put it, stepping-stones to 

 higher things, and it was very encouraging to know that 

 many of those who, as members, had received their first 

 encouragement in this Society, were now occupying useful 

 positions in the entomological world. If he had been the 

 means of assisting in any small way in carrying on the work 

 of the Society he was very glad. He expressed his apprecia- 

 tion of the generous assistance he had received, not only 

 from the officers but also from the general body of members, 

 in carrying out the duties of the office whilst he had been in 

 the chair ; and he felt sure that in Mr. Sich, whom they had 

 chosen as their future President, they had one whose know- 

 ledge, tact, and kindly disposition could not fail to be 

 advantageous to them in continuing the Society's work. 



Votes of thanks to the various officers were then put and 

 suitably acknowledged, and the business of the annual 

 meeting concluded. 



ORDINARY MEETING. 



Mr. A. Sich, F.E.S., President, in the Chair. 



Mr. B. Smith, of Upper Norwood, and Mr. E. R. Goffe, of 

 Wandsworth Common, were elected members. 



Mr. A. L. Rayward exhibited alarva of Pseudoterpna pruinata, 

 hibernating on a twig of Genista anglica, and stated that, 

 when found a few days previously, it was attached by the 

 prolegs and anal claspers to a leafless side-shoot of the main 

 stem, half way between the surface of the ground and the 

 top of the plant. The body was held, in the manner 

 characteristic of the resting habit of the species, well away 



