REPORT OF THE COUNCIL, 1909. 



^jPHE Council of the South London Entomological and 

 Natural History Society, in presenting their Thirty- 

 eighth Annual Report, is pleased to state that the 

 affairs of the Society continue in a very satisfactory con- 

 dition. 



During the year just passed thirteen new Members have 

 been elected, while only six names have been deleted from 

 the list, of which five were by resignation and one by death. 

 The last was that of Mr. J. Tolhurst, who had been a member 

 since 1895. 



The Membership, therefore, now stands as follows : 2 

 Honorary, 6 Life, ^^ Country, and 134 Ordinary Members, 

 making a total of 175. 



The Meetings have been well attended throughout the 

 year, and the Recorder, Mr, A. W. Dennis, reports that 

 there has been an average attendance of thirty-three at the 

 twenty-three meetings. 



At the Annual Special Exhibition Meeting in November 

 last upwards of ninety Members and friends were present, a 

 number never reached before. Of these no less than forty 

 brought exhibits. As in previous years, the Society is much 

 indebted to Mr. F. Noad Clark for his skilful working of the 

 lantern, which has been used even more than in previous 

 years. 



Mr. West, the Hon. Curator, reports that early in the 

 year, through the kind instrumentality of Mr. Rowland- 

 Brown, F.E.S., the Hon. Secretary of the Entomological 

 Society of London, two cabinets containing a fine repre- 

 sentative collection of European Butterfiies, formed by the 

 late F. F. Freeman, Esq., of Tavistock, Devon, were 



