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THE ZOOLOGIST. 



Entomological Society of London. 



Jan. 27, 1892. — 5M Annual Meeting (adjourned from the 20th inst. on 

 account of the death of H.R.H. the Duke of Clarence and Avondale). — 

 — Mr. F. Du Cane Godman, F.R.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 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 1892 : — 

 President, Mr. Frederick DuCane Godman, F.R.S.; Treasurer, Mr. Robert 

 McLacblan, 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. C. G. Barrett, Mr. Herbert Druce, 

 F.L.S. , Captain Henry J. Elwes, F.L.S. , Prof. Raphael Meldola, F.R.S., 

 Mr. Edward B. Poulton, M.A., F.R.S., Dr. David Sharp, M.A., F.R.S., 

 Colonel Charles Swinhoe, F.L.S., and the Right Hon. Lord Walsingham, 

 LL.D., F.R.S. It was also announced that the President would appoint 

 Lord Walsingham, Captain Elwes, and Dr. Sharp, Vice-Presidents for the 

 Session 1892-3. The President then delivered an Address. After alluding 

 to the vast number of species of insects and to the recent calculations of 

 Dr. Sharp and Lord Walsingham as to the probable number of them as 

 yet undescribed, he referred to the difficulty experienced in preparing a 

 monograph of the fauna of even a comparatively small part of the world, — 

 e.g. Mexico and Central America, and certain small islands in the West 

 Indian Archipelago, — upon which he, with a large number of competent 

 assistants, had been engaged for many years. The examination of the 

 collections recently made in St. Vincent, alone, had obliged him to search 

 the whole of Europe and North America for specialists ; and similar 

 collections from Grenada were still untouched in consequence of the number 

 of workers being unequal to the demands upon their time. He observed 

 that the extent of the subject of Entomology was so vast, that nothing but a 

 systematic and continuous effort to amass collections, work them out, and 

 preserve them, could place us in a position to proceed safely with the larger 

 questions which followed the initial step of naming species ; and it would 

 only be by the steady effort of our Museum officials, not only to work at the 

 subject themselves, but to enlist the aid of every available outside worker, 

 that substantial progress could be made. 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 Mons. 

 Edmond Andre, the Duke of Devonshire, Mr. F. Grut, Mr. E. W. Ja-nson, 

 Prof. Felipe Poey, Sir William Macleay, Mr. W. H. Edwards, Mr. Robert 

 Gillo, and Dr. J. M. J. Af Tengstrom. A vote of thanks to the President 

 and other Officers of the Society having been passed, Mr. Godman, 

 Mr.McLachlan, Mr.H. Goss, and Mr. Champion replied, and the proceedings 

 terminated. — H. Goss, lion. Secretary, 



