REPORT OF THE COUNCIL, 1903. 



THE Council of the South London Entomological and 

 Natural History Society, in presenting the Thirty- 

 Second Annual Report, are pleased to state that the 

 Society is in a very prosperous condition. The member- 

 ship again remains about the same as it has been for several 

 years. The number of new Members nearly makes up for 

 the losses. Since our last Annual Meeting thirteen Members 

 have been elected, as against sixteen who have ceased to 

 subscribe to the Society, of whom seven Members have 

 resigned, and nine have been written off through non- 

 payment of their subscription. At the last Annual Meeting 

 the Roll stood at i8i ; therefore the addition of thirteen 

 new Members and the loss of sixteen Members makes the 

 number of Members at present to be 178. 



The Auditors report that the Treasurer's Balance-sheet 

 is an unusually satisfactory one, and both the Society and 

 the Treasurer are to be congratulated. 



The usual number of Meeting s has been held, and the 

 average attendance, over thirty-two, shows that Members 

 have maintained their interest in the objects of the Society, 

 in spite of the most abnormal weather throughout the whole 

 year. 



On March loth Prof. E. B. PouLTON, M.A., F.R.S., 

 (President of the Entomological Society), gave a special 

 address on " Recent Researches in Protective Resemblance, 

 Warning Colours, and Mimicry in Insects," illustrated with 

 a very large number of lantern slides. There was a capital 



