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And we recommend — 



That the proceeds of the sale should be applied to the purchase of entomological 

 books wanting in the Library, and such species of British insects us are not 

 otherwise to be procured. 



We take this opportunity of drawing the attention of the Council to the Catalogue 

 of the books in the Library, which was commenced some years since by Mr. Wilkin- 

 son, but now for a considerable period discontinued by that gentleman, for want of 

 time to continue it. There is no question that a complete Catalogue of the Society's 

 books would be of great utility to the Members, and, as no other means of procuring 

 it offer, we recommend that the Curator be specially engaged, and paid at the usual 

 rate, for one week, in which time he believes that by continuous application (which is 

 essential in such a work where the books are in circulation) he could take down the 

 titles, &c,, of all the books. 



At a former period a quantity of non-entomological books was removed and dis- 

 posed of by order of the Council, but there are still many works and periodicals 

 which either contain no entomological matter or are of no entomological interest or 

 value, and only encumber the shelves, which might be more usefully occupied. We 

 submit that a list of these be prepared and laid before the Council, with a view to 

 their removal and disposal. 



(Signed) 



JOHN CURTIS, President. 

 FREDK. SMITH. 

 J. W. DOUGLAS. 

 EDWIN SHEPHERD. 

 EDWARD W. JANSON. 



October 15, 1855. 



This Report having been read, Mr. Westwood said he had always thought the 

 Society had done wrong in establishing a collection of insects, and that it would have 

 been much better to have spent the sums expended fur cabinets and preservation in 

 publishing memoirs in the Society's ' Transactions.' The experience of the Linnean 

 and Zoological Societies in England, and the Entomological Society of France, had 



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