At the Annual Special Exhibition oi: Varieties held in November, 

 103 were present, a number not attained before ; of these over 35 

 brought exhibits, the majority of which were of Lepidoptera. The 

 Council hopes that other orders may be better represented on future 

 occasions. 



On the suggestion of the President, on December 14th, a special 

 exhibition of Runiieia pJdaas and its allied forms was held, and 

 proved a great success. 



The Society is indebted to Mr. F. Noad Clark for again taking 

 charge of the lantern on each of the four occasions when it has 

 been used. 



The following is a list of the Papers read before the Society : 



May 11th. — R, Paulson, "Lichens/' with lantern illustrations. 



October 12th. — R. Adkin, " Notes on the Season," with a 

 summary of the subsequent remarks of other members. 



October 26th. — W. J. Lucas, B.Sc, on the Bracken {Fteris 

 aquilina), illustrated with lantern slides. 



This list is exceptionally short, but, on the other hand, there 

 have been more exhibits at each meeting, and a considerable 

 number of valuable notes have been contributed. 



The Honorary Curator, Mr. W. West (Greenwich), reports that 

 the additions to the Cabinets have been more numerous this year 

 than last. He says, " In the Order Lepidoptera, Mr. R. Adkin has 

 given a specimen each of Apatuta irh and Hippotion celerio ; l^Ir. 

 Russell, a bred series of Taeniocampa ruhricoaa ; Mr. Newman, a 

 fine pair of melanic forms of Emiomos alniaria : and Mr. Sheldon, 

 several species of European Rhopalocera. 



" Having completed the re-arrangement of the Society's collection 

 of CoLEOPTERA, I am pleased to report that the members interested 

 in that order have contributed a good many species. The donors 

 are Messrs. Ashdown, Ashby, Curwen, Gadge, and myself. 



" Mr. CurAven has also contributed a fine series of various 

 Hymenoptera, an order hitherto unrepresented in the Society's 

 collections. 



" I have also added several species of Orthoptera and Hemiptera. 



" The only Order that now remains unrepresented in the 

 collection is the Diptera, of which, however, I hope to be able to 

 add a cabinet drawer during the coming year." 



Mr. Step has continued his work of renovating the specimens in 

 the " Tugwell Herbarium," and a considerable part of this collection 

 is now available for reference. The best thanks of the Society are 

 due to Mr. Step for this work. For his kindness in presenting a 



