REPORT. 



South London Temperance Hall, 



Blackfriars Road. 



Your Council in presenting the Report and Balance Sheet for 

 the year 1879, have to congratulate the Members that they still 

 hold their own among the Entomological Societies of London ; 

 and, notwithstanding the very unpropitious weather they have had 

 this season, from an entomological point of view, much practical 

 work has been done. 



It is a pleasing fact to have to record that the Society is still 

 increasing. This year the number of new Members elected 

 amounts to twelve, against thirteen in 1878. The Members who 

 have resigned being one in 1879, against four in 1878. The total 

 number of Members now on the Society's books is ninety-four ; 

 but it is to be regretted that this figure cannot be taken as the 

 proper strength of the Society, as many Members do not come to 

 the Meetings of the Society, and further, do not pay their sub- 

 scriptions, and the Council have felt it their duty to strike 

 several of these off the Society's books, in order to begin the 

 new year without any bad debts. 



It has been thought desirable to publish a list of the Members 

 with their addresses at the end of this Eeport. 



The publication of the Fauna List of Kent and Surrey has had, 

 in consequence of the heavy expense incurred in the publishing of 

 a work of this kind, to be abandoned for a time, but it is hoped 

 that at no very distant period the Society will have all the 

 material ready, and begin its publication in parts. 



Great addition has been made to the Library this year by 

 donations as well as by purchase. In consequence of the publica- 



