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January 26, 1857.— W. W. Saunders, Esq., F.R.S., President, in the chair. 



The 23rd Anniversary Meeting was held on the 26th inst., at the rooms of the 

 Society, 12, Bedford Row. 



Messrs. J. E. Gray, F. Grut, F. P. Pascoe, and T. V. Wollaston, were elected 

 members of the Council, in the room of Messrs. J. Curtis, J. W. Douglas, F. Smith, 

 and J. O. Westwood. W. W. Saunders, Esq., F.R.S., &c, was re-elected President ; 

 S. Stevens, Esq., F.L.S., Treasurer; and Messrs. E. Shepherd and E. W. Janson, 

 Secretaries. 



The Report of the Council for the year 1856 was read and received ; the abstract 

 of the Treasurer's accounts, as furnished by the auditors, showed a larger balance in 

 hand than on any former anniversary. 



The President delivered an Address on the affairs of the Society and the progress 

 of Entomology, for which, and his courteous conduct in the chair, and on all other 

 occasions, the Meeting passed a cordial vote of thanks, with a request that he would 

 allow the Address to be printed. 



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

 Members of Council. 



Part 3 of Vol. iv., n.s., of the Society's i Transactions' was on the table. 



February 2, 1857. — H. T. Stainton, Esq., V.P., in the chair. 



The Secretary read a letter from the President of the Society, W. Wilson Saun- 

 ders, Esq. (who was absent through indisposition), in which he nominated as Vice- 

 Presidents for the year Dr. J. E. Gray, H. T. Stainton, Esq., and T. V. Wollaston, 

 Esq. 



Donations. 



The following donations were announced, and thanks ordered to be given to the 

 donors: — 'Memoirs of the Royal Academy of Sciences of Madrid,' Natural Sciences, 

 Tome ii. Part I . ; Physical Sciences, Tome i. Part I. ; presented by the Academy. ' Exo- 

 tic Butterflies,' Part XXI. ; by W. W. Saunders, Esq., F.R.S. ' Proceedings of 'the 

 Zoological Society,' Nos. 310 — 313 inclusive; by the Society. ' Monograph of the 

 Genus Catops,' by Andrew Murray, Member of the Royal Physical Society of Edin- 

 burgh, &c. ; by the Author. ' The Natural History Review,' 1857, No. 1 ; by the Dub- 

 lin University Zoological Association. 'Bibliotheca Historico-Naturalis,' Vol. v. Part 

 II. ; by the Editor, Herr Ernst A. Zuckold. ' List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous 

 Insects in the Collection of the British Museum,' by Francis Walker, Esq., F.L.S., 

 PartX. Noctuidae; by the Author. 'The Zoologist' for February; by the Editor. 

 'The Literary Gazette' for January ; by the Editor. 'The Journal of the Society of 

 Arts ' for January ; by the Society. 'A Manual of British Butterflies and Moths, 

 No. 12; 'Elements of Entomology,' No. 5 ; ' The Substitute,' Nos. 12—15; by H.T. 

 Stainton, Esq. 



Election of a Subscriber. 



C. J. Biggs, Esq., of Blenheim Cottages, South Hackney, was balloted for and 

 elected a Subscriber to the Society. 



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