COUNCIL'S REPORT, 1894. 



THE Council of the South London Entomological and 

 Natural History Society, in presenting the Twenty- 

 Second Annual Report to the members, are gratified in being 

 able to state that the affairs of the Society remain in a 

 prosperous condition. 



With regard to Membership the outlook is decidedly more 

 encouraging than of late. Since our last annual meeting the 

 number of members elected has been nearly double that of 

 the previous year, namely, twelve, as against seven, while on 

 the other hand the resignations have been considerably less, 

 the numbers being fourteen in 1894, and twenty-two in 1893, 

 and it has been considered necessary to write off only two 

 members for non-payment of subscription as against ten in 

 1893. We have also lost three of our oldest and most 

 respected members by death, namely, Mr. J. Jenner Weir, 

 Mr. J. Trimmer Williams, and Mr. J. R. Wellman. All 

 three of these gentlemen joined the "Society in the first 

 year of its existence, 1872, each had ably filled the pre- 

 sidential chair, Mr. Wellman being its first president, and 

 occupied that position on no less than four occasions ; while 

 Mr. Weir relinquished the presidency but a few weeks before 

 his lamented death ; and the Council desire to express their 

 appreciation of the services rendered to the Society by these 

 gentlemen, whose death they so deeply deplore. 



The present Membership thus stands at i8g; and the 

 Council, while having every reason to be gratified with the 

 present position of the Society, desire strongly to impress 

 upon Members the desirability of introducing friends who 

 may become candidates for election, so that not only may 

 the natural shrinkage be counterbalanced, but the numerical 



