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situated under a fold of mucous membrane between the lip and the jaw. 

 He thought that the structures previously described as ducts were only the 

 branches of the inferior dental nerve- and blood-vessels. — P. L. Sclater, 

 Secretary. 



Entomological Society of London. 



January 21, 1891, the 58th Annual Meeting. — The Rt. Hon. Lord 

 Walsingham, M.A., F.R.S., President, in the chair. 



An abstract of the Treasurer's accounts was read by Mr. Herbert Druce, 

 one of the Auditors, and the Report of the Council was read by Mr. H. 

 Goss. It appeared therefrom that the Society had lost during the year 

 five Fellows by death and had elected twenty-seven new Fellows ; that the 

 volume of Transactions for the year extended to neaily 700 pages, and 

 comprised twenty memoirs, contributed by seventeen authors and illustrated 

 by twenty-one plates. It was then announced that the following gentlemen 

 had been elected as Officers and Council for 1891 : — President, Mr. Frederick 

 DuCaue Godman, M.A., F.R.S. ; Treasurer, Mr. Robert M'Lachlan,F.R.S. ; 

 Secretaries, Mr. Herbert Goss, F.L.S., and the Rev. Canon Fowler, M.A., 

 F.L.S.; Librarian, Mr. Ferdinand Grut, F.L.S. ; and as others, Members 

 of the Council, Prof. R. Meldola, F.R.S., Mr. Edward Saunders, F.L.S., 

 Dr. David Sharp, F.R.S., Mr. Richard South, Mr. H. T. Stainton, F.R.S., 

 Colonel Charles Swinhoe, F.L.S. , Mr. George H. Verrall, and the 

 Right Honble. Lord Walsingham, M.A., F.R.S. It was also announced 

 that the new President had appointed Lord Walsingham, Prof. Meldola, 

 and Dr. Sharp, Vice-Presidents for the session, 1891—1892. Lord 

 Walsingham, the retiring President, then delivered an Address. After 

 alluding to some of the more important Entomological publications of the 

 past year, and making special mention of those of Edwards and Scudder in 

 America, of Romanoff in Russia, of the Oberthiirs in France, and of 

 Godman and Salvin in England, the President referred to Mr. Moore's 

 courageous undertaking in commencing his ' Lepidoptera Indica,' on the 

 lines adopted in his ' Lepidoptera of Ceylon.' Attention was then called to 

 the unusual development during the past year of the study of those 

 problems which have been the object of the researches of Darwin, Wallace, 

 Weismann, Meldola, Poulton, and others, and to the special and increasing 

 literature of the subject. In this connection allusion was made to 

 Mr. Tutt's 'Entomologist's Record and Journal of Variation,' to Mr. 

 Poulton's valuable book ' On the meaning and use of the Colours of 

 Animals,' and to the interesting and important papers and experiments of 

 Mr. F. Merrifield on the subject of the variation in Lepidoptera caused by 

 differences of temperature. After alluding to the International Zoological 

 Congress held at Paris during the past year, and to the rules of nomen- 



