REPORT OF THE COUNCIL, 1899. 



nPHE Council of the South London Entomological and 

 Natural History Society, in presenting the Twenty- 

 Seventh Annual Report, is gratified to note that the condi- 

 tion and progress has again been satisfactory. 



During the past year fourteen new Members have been 

 admitted, while ten have resigned. Two have been removed 

 by death, viz. Messrs. S. Stevens and B. H. Walters. Under 

 Bye-law lo, Section 2, the names of four Members have been 

 removed from the list for continued non-payment of sub- 

 scription. The present strength of the Society, therefore, 

 stands at one hundred and sixty-six Members. 



The finances of the Society are still in a sound condition, 

 but the unusual procrastination that many Members have 

 shown in the forwarding of their annual subscriptions has 

 caused the Hon. Treasurer a considerable amount of trouble, 

 and resulted in publication of Part I. of the " Proceedings" 

 being much delayed. 



No less than^ fourteen Papers and four Reports of Field 

 Meetings have been read before the Society, of which con- 

 tributions the following eleven Members and three non- 

 members were the authors : — Mr. R. x\dkin, three ; Mr. J. 

 W. TuTT, two ; Mr. F. Noad Clark, two ; Dr. Chapman, 

 Mr. E. Step, Mr. Malcolm Burr, Mr. Stanley Edwards, 

 Mr. W. J. Lucas, Mr. Ashdown, Mr. Hy. J. Turner, Mr. 

 Carrington, Mr. Scourfield, Mr. Merrin, and Mr. 

 MoRLEY, one each. This is a larger number of Papers than 

 in any former year, and more than half of them dealt with 

 orders other than lepidoptera, with general natural history, 

 or with scientific biological problems. The Society's lantern 

 continues to be of great use in illustrating the Papers read, 

 and the authors of Papers and Notes have made consider- 

 able use of diagrams, microscopes, and the blackboard. 



