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Entomological Society op London. 



January 17th, 1894. — The 61st Annual Meeting. — Mr. Frederic 

 Merrifield, Vice-President, in the chair. An abstract of the Treasurer's 

 accounts, showing a balance in the Society's favour, having been read 

 by Mr. J. Jenner Weir, one of the Auditors, the Secretary, Mr. H. Goss, 

 read the Report of the Council. It was then announced that the 

 following gentlemen had been elected as Officers and Council for 

 1894 :— President, Mr. Henry J. Elwes, F.L.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. Walter 

 F. H. Blandford, M.A., F.Z.S., Mr. Charles J. Gahan, M.A., Mr. 

 Frederic Merrifield, Prof. Edward B. Poulton, M.A., F.R.S., Colonel 

 Charles Swinhoe, M.A., F.L.S., Mr. George H. Verrall, Mr. James J. 

 Walker, R.N. , F.L.S., and the Right Hon. Lord Walsingham, LL.D., 

 F.R. S. Mr. Merrifield then read the President's Address, in which, after 

 alluding to the principal events of the past year, and the prosperous 

 condition of the Society, he referred to the additions which had been 

 made in 1893 to the literature of Entomology, calling attention 

 to the 'Butterflies of China and Japan,' by Mr. J. H. Leech; the 

 1 Moths of India,' by Mr. G. F. Hampson ; the ' Butterflies of 

 North America,' by Mr. W. H. Edwards ; ' Lepidoptera Indica, 

 by Dr. F. Moore ; and the continuation of the ' Biologia Centrali- 

 Americana,' by Messrs. F. D. Godman, F.R.S., and Osbert Salvin, 

 F.R.S. He also commented on the recent publications of the Grand 

 Duke Nicholas Mikhailovitch, Mons. Charles Oberthur, and Dr. 

 Staudinger, on the Continent. The President concluded by referring 

 to the losses by death during the year of several Fellows of the Society 

 and other Entomologists, special mention being made of Prof. H. A. 

 Hagen, M.D., the Rev. Leonard Blomefield, M.A., Mr. A. C. Horner, 

 M.R.C.S., Prof. J. Wood-Mason, the Rev. Henry Burney, M.A., Mr. 

 J. C. Bowring, F.L.S., the Rev. F. 0. Morris, B.A., Mr. J. Batty, Mr. 

 Francis P. Pascoe, F.L.S., Herr Eduard Honrath, and Dr. Adolph 

 Speyer. A vote of thanks to the President for his Address was pro- 

 posed by Colonel Swinhoe, seconded by Mr. Jenner Weir, and carried 

 unanimously. Mr. Merrifield replied for the President. Lord Walsing- 

 ham proposed a vote of thanks to the Officers of the Society ; this was 

 seconded by Mr. Waterhouse, and carried unanimously. Mr. McLachlan 

 and Mr. Goss replied, and the proceedings terminated. — H. Goss, 

 Hon. Sec. 



