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Proceedings of Societies. 

 Entomological Society. 



Anniversary Meeting, January 23, 1854. — Edward Newman, Esq., President, in 

 the chair. 



The Secretary read the Bye Law pertaining to the Annual General Meeting, and 

 the Report of the Library and Cabinet Committee, made to and and adopted by the 

 Council. Read also an abstract of the Treasurer's Accounts, from which it appeared 

 that the finances of the Society had quite recovered from their depressed state at the 

 end of 1852, and that the income and expenditure were now about equal. 



The President having appointed two Scrutineers, the ballot took place ; when it 

 appeared that Messrs. W. S. Dallas, Edward Sheppard, F. Smith, and H. T. Stain- 

 ton were elected into the Council, in the room of Messrs. J. Curtis, E. W. Janson, 

 W. Spence, and J. 0. Westwood ; and that the following gentlemen were re-elected 

 to the respective offices for the ensuing year : — Edward Newman, Esq., President ; 

 S. Stevens, Esq., Treasurer ; and J. W. Douglas and W. Wing, Secretaries. 



The President then delivered the following Address : for this, and his services to 

 the Society during the year, the Meeting passed a vote of thanks, and he was requested 

 to allow his Address to be printed. 



Votes of thanks were also passed to the Treasurer, Secretaries, and retiring Mem- 

 bers of the Council. 



THE PRESIDENT'S ADDRESS. 



Gentlemen, 



In returning into your hands the important office with which 

 you have intrusted me, I should neither be performing my duty, nor 

 obeying the dictates of my own inclination, were I not to express to 

 you my sincere gratitude for the kindness with which you have inva- 

 riably received me. I came amongst you a comparative stranger to 

 all, an entire stranger to the majority : not only, as I conceived, by no 

 claim or merit of my own, but quite in opposition to my own often- 

 expressed, and still unaltered judgment, that the office-bearers of every 

 Society should be selected from among its most active and useful 

 members. Notwithstanding these sentiments I came forward at your 

 call, have been received by you with the utmost kindness and in- 

 dulgence, and shall ever remember with pleasure the period during 

 which I have enjoyed the honour of presiding over you. 



The duties of President, and indeed the general business of the 

 Society, are so new to me, that I cannot help fearing that some of my 

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