REPORT, 1880. 



Gentlemen, 



Your Council. in presenting their Annual Report and Balance 

 Sheet for the year 1880, are glad to be able to bear testimony to the 

 fact that the Society still sustains a well-earned reputation, and although 

 the membership has not increased, owing to the striking out of names 

 of members who did not pay their subscriptions, the meetings have 

 been better attended than in former years, and many exceedingly 

 rare and local species have been exhibited at the meetings. 



In consequence of the uncomfortable condition of the rooms of 

 the Society at the South Metropolitan Temperance Hall, your Council 

 decided to change the location of the Society and gave notice to leave 

 in June last, and accordingly the first meeting in July found the Society 

 at the more convenient and comfortable rooms at 94, New Kent Road. 



The library owing to the careful manner in which Mr. Rose, the 

 Honorary Librarian, has arranged and kept the valuable collection of 

 scientific works belonging to the Society, is in first class order and all 

 the books printed in last years report, and acquired since, with the 

 exception of the "World of Insects" are in the Library or in circulation. 

 The donations to the Library for the year are as follows : — 

 Mr. Shb:arwood ... ... Two guineas. 



„ Standen British Larvae by Wilson. 



,, ,, ... ... Scientific Lectures by Lubbock. 



„ Newman "Entomologist," 1880. 



„ „ "Zoologist," 1880. 



