o2 [February, 1893. 



exhibits were laid on the table for inspection. The first business was the election of 

 officers for the ensuing year. 



Mr. Capper was, for the l7th time, re-elected to the position of President ; Mr. 

 W. E. Sharp was appointed Vice-President ; Mr. F. N. Pierce, F.E.S., Honorary 

 Secretary and Treasurer ; and Mr. C. H. H. Walker, Librarian. 



Mr. Walker, on behalf of the Members of the Society, said it was his pleasing 

 duty to ask Mr. Capper to accept a handsome gold-mounted silver case, containing 

 a pair of gold entomological forceps. The Society congratulated itself upon having 

 again secured Mr. Capper as its President. 



Mr. Capper, in acknowledging the gift, said that he thorouglily appreciated the 

 kindness of the Members, and would in future, as in the past, do all he could to 

 benefit the Society. Before proceeding to deliver his Presidential Address, he 

 referred to the death of Prof. Westwood. 



The President exhibited a melanic variety of Timandra amataria, the specimen 

 was unicolorous, covered with soft olive-green scales. Mr. Grregson, a collection of 

 autographs of Naturalists, Artists, and Authors, including nearly all the Entomolo- 

 gists of the last fifty years. Mr. Walker, a drawer of varieties of North American 

 Vanessa Antiopa, probably the finest lot of varieties of this species extant. Mr. 

 Collins, Stauropus fagi from Reading. Mr. Mosley, set of Educational cases of 

 Natural History, to be used as prizes at schools. Mr. Newstead, a specimen of 

 Vanessa Antiopa captured in Cheshire, in 1877, by Mr. Leather, of Vale Royal. — 

 E. N. PiEECE, Kon. Sec, 143, Smithdown Lane, Liverpool. 



Entomological Society of London : January 18fA, 1893. — Sixtieth 

 Annual Meeting. — Eredeeick DuCane G-odman, Esq., E.R.S., President, in the 

 Chair. An Abstract of the Treasurer's Accounts having been read by one of the 

 Auditors, the Secretary, Mr. H. G-oss, read the Report of the Council. After the 

 ballot it was announced that the following gentlemen had been elected as Officers 

 and Council for 1893 : — President, Mr. Henry J. Elwes, F.L.S. ; Treasurer, Mr. 

 Robert McLachlan, F.R.S. ; Secretaries, Mr. Herbert Goss, E.L.S., and the Rev. 

 Canon Fowlei", M.A., F.L.S. ; Librarian, Mr. George C. Champion, E.Z.S. ; and as 

 other Members of the Council, Mr. C. G-. Barrett, Mr. Charles J. Gahan, M.A., Mr. 

 F. DuCane Godman, F.R.S., Mr. Frederic Merrifield, Mr. Osbert Salvin, M.A., F.R.S., 

 Dr. David Sharp, M.A., F.R.S., Colonel Charles Swinhoe, M.A., F.L.S., and Mr. 

 George H. Verrall. The President then delivered an Address, which, tliough con- 

 taining reference to the Society's internal affairs, and an allusion to the successful 

 resistance made by naturalists and others to the War Office scheme for establishing 

 a rifle range in the New Forest, consisted for the most part of full obituary notices 

 of Fellows of the Society who had died during the year, special mention being made 

 of Mr. Henry W. Bates, F.R.S., Professor Hermann C. C. Burmeister, M.D., Dr. 

 Carl A. Dohrn, Mr. H. Berkeley-James, Mr. J. T. Harris, Sir Richard Owen, K.C.B., 

 F.R.S., Mr. Henry T. Stainton, F.R.S., Mr. Howard Vaughan, and Professor J. O. 

 Westwood, M.A., the Hon. Life President. A vote of thanks to the outgoing 

 President having been proposed by Lord Walsingham, F.R.S. , and seconded by Mr. 

 J. H. Leech, Mr. Godman replied. Dr. D. Sharp proposed a vote of thanks to the 

 Secretaries, Treasurer, and Librarian, which was seconded by Mr. W. H. B. 

 Fletcher ; Mr. McLachlan, Mr. Goss, and Canon Fowler replied. — H. Goss and W. 

 W. FowLKK, Ron. Sees. 



