REPORT OF THE COUNCIL, 1897. 
HE Council of the South London Entomological and 
Natural History Society, in presenting the Twenty- 
Fifth Annual Report to Members, is pleased to be able to 
state that the Society continues to maintain a satisfactory 
position. The present membership is 173 in number, and 
composed as follows :—Ordinary, 120; country, 44; life, 5; 
and honorary, 4. The finances also remain on a sound 
basis. 
Some twelve original papers—several of them being of 
high scientific value—were contributed by the following 
gentlemen :—Mr. TourTt, four; Prof. A. RADCLIFFE GROTE, 
three; the Rev. Jos. GREENE, one; Mr. Hewitt (York), 
one; Mr. STEP, one; Mr. TUNALEY, one: and Mr. 
TURNER, one. In addition to these two discussions were 
held, one introduced by Mr. C. G. BARRETT and the other 
by the PRESIDENT, and two special demonstrations were 
given with the lantern by Messrs. F. W. CLARKE and A. 
Harrison. The Council is much gratified that Members so 
readily come forward to render the ordinary meetings gene- 
rally interesting, attractive, and instructive. 
The exhibits at the Meetings have been quite up to the 
average in interest, and the Council is pleased to find that 
the practice among Members of furnishing concise notes of 
their observations is becoming more general. It also re- 
gards with satisfaction the fact that an increasing number 
of Members are turning their attention to orders other than 
Lepidoptera, and that an interest is taken in the fauna of 
countries outside Britain. With reference to European 
Rhopalocera, for example, many valuable notes have been 
contributed on species closely allied to those comprised in 
our own limited fauna. 
During the summer months the Meetings were, if any- 
thing, more poorly attended than in previous years, owing, 
