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January 28, 1856. 

 Edward Newman, Esq., F.L.S., Vice-President, in the cliair. 



The 22nd Anniversaiy Meeting was held on the 28th instant, at the rooms of the 

 Society, 12, Bedford Eow. 



Messrs. J. S. Baly, F. P. Pascoe, W. W. Saunders, and G. R. Waterhouse were 

 elected members of the Council, in the room of Messrs. E. Newman, A. F. Shep- 

 pard, Edward Sheppard, and S. L. Waring. W. Wilson Saunders, Esq., F.R.S., ^-c, 

 was elected President; S. Stevens, Esq., F.L.S., Treasurer; and Messrs. J. W. Doug- 

 las and Edwin Shepherd, Secretaries. 



The Chairman delivered an Address on the affairs of the Society and Entomology 

 in Britain, enumerating the chief subjects brought before the Society during the past 

 year, and the Entomological books published in England during that period The 

 Meeting passed a vote of thanks for this Address, and ordered it to be printed. 



A vote of thanks was passed to J. Curtis, Esq., for his services to the Society and 

 his courteous conduct in the Chair; and on the motion of Mr. Westwood, it was 

 resolved that a portrait of Mr. Curtis should be procured and hung up in the Meeting- 

 room. 



Votes of thanks were then passed to the Treasurer and Secretaries. 



ANNIVERSARY ADDRESS. 



Gentlemen, 



The delivering of an Address, on the occasion of our Anniversary 

 Meeting for the election of officers, seems to have become a promi- 

 nent as well as permanent feature in the proceedings of the evening. 

 I'hese Addresses should comprise a faithful summary of the entomo- 

 logical doings of our country during the year, having an especial, but 

 not exclusive, reference to the progress of our Society ; giving to each 

 branch of the subject its own, and not more than its own, weight and 

 importance ; and utterly ignoring every consideration, except the pre- 

 servation of such a continuous record of progress as shall enable 

 those now at a distance, and all in future years, to see, as in a mirror, 

 a truthful image of the position of the Science in Britain for the time 

 being, and to supply the historian of Entomology with solid and 



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