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Entomological Society of London. 

 January 16th, 1895. — Sixty -second Annual Meeting. — Henry John 

 Elwes, F.L.S., F.Z.S., President, in the chair. An abstract of the 

 Treasurer's accounts, showing a good balance in the Society's favour, 

 having been read by Mr. W. F. H. Blandford, one of the Auditors, 

 Mr. H. Goss read the Keport of the Council. It was then announced 

 that the following gentlemen had been elected as Officers and Council 

 for 1895 : — President, Professor Eaphael Meldola, F.R.S. ; Treasurer, 

 Mr. Robert McLachlan, F.R.S. ; Secretaries, Mr. Herbert Goss, 

 F.L.S., and the Rev. Canon Fowler, M.A., F.L.S. ; Librarian, 

 Mr. George C. Champion, F.Z.S. ; and as other Members of the 

 Council, Mr. George T. Bethune-Baker, Mr. Walter F. H. Blandford, 

 Dr. Frederick A. Dixey, Mr. Henry J. Elwes, Mr. Charles J. Gahan, 

 Professor Poulton, Dr. David Sharp, and the Right Hon. Lord 

 Walsingham. It was also announced that Professor Meldola, the 

 new President, would appoint Lord Walsingham, Mr. Henry J. 

 Elwes, and Professor Edward B. Poulton, Vice-Presidents for the 

 Session 1895-6. The outgoing President then delivered an interesting 

 address " On the Geographical Distribution of Insects." He remarked 

 that though a great deal had been written of late years on the 

 geographical distribution of plants, mammals, birds, fishes, and 

 reptiles, comparatively little had yet been done by entomologists to 

 show how far the natural divisions of the earth's surface which 

 have been established for other classes were applicable to insects. 

 Perhaps the proportion of known as compared with unknown insects 

 was still too small, and the classification of the known species still 

 too uncertain, to allow anything like the same methods to be applied 

 to insects that had been used for mammals by Dr. Wallace, for 

 birds by Dr. Sclater and Dr. Bowdler-Sharpe, and for plants by 

 Sir Joseph Hooker, Mr. Thiselton Dyer, and Mr. W. B. Hemsley. He 

 then enumerated the genera of the Rhopalocera, and pointed out 

 which of them were characteristic of the various regions and sub- 

 regions into which the world had been divided by the zoologists and 

 botanists above-mentioned. He also exhibited specimens typical of 

 these regions and sub-regions. After alluding to the prosperous 

 condition of the Society, and to the increase in its numbers and 

 income, reference was made to various entomologists who had died 

 during the year, and a vote of thanks to the President and other 

 Officers of the Society having been passed, the proceedings terminated. 

 • — H. Goss & W. W. Fowler, Hon. Secretaries. 





