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April 3rd, 1901. 



Mr. Charles Golding Barrett, Vice-president, in the Chair. 



Election of Fellows. 



Mr. Albert Pift'ard, of Felden, Boxnioor, Herts, and Mr. 

 Percy J. Lathy, of Lyndon Villa, Sydney Road, Enfield, were 

 elected Fellows of the Society. 



Address to the King. 



The Secretary read the following letter from the Right 

 Honourable Charles T. Ritchie, M.P., Secretary of State for 

 the Home Department. 



Home Office, Whitehall, 



1st April, 1901. 

 Sir, — I am commanded by the King to convey to you hereby 

 His Majesty's thanks for the Loyal and Dutiful Address of the 

 members of the Entomological Society of London, expressing 

 their sympathy with His Majesty and the Royal Family on 

 the occasion of the lamented death of Her late Majesty Queen 

 Victoria. 



I am, Sir, 



Your obedient servant, 



Chas. T. Ritchie. 



H. Goss, Esq., 



Entomological Society, 



11, Cliandos Street, Cavendish Square, W. 



Exhibitions. 



The Rev. A. E. Eaton sent for exhibition on behalf of Mr. 

 F. M. Halford a 9 sub-imago of a species of Ephemeridse, of 

 the genus Ephemera, received from Central Africa, without 

 more precise indication of locality. It was stated that it was 

 the first time this genus had been noticed from Africa. 



Mr. McLachlan remarked that Ephemera usually occurred 

 in cold alpine or temperate regions, and that the Central 

 African example probably inhabited the mountains at a con- 

 siderable altitude. 



Dr. T. A. Chapman exhibited cases of Luffia ferschaidtella from 

 Cannes, and a spider, Cyclosa conica, found on the same rocks, 



