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Report of the Council. 



During the Session 1901-2 one Honorary Fellow — Monsieur 

 J. H. Fabre — has been elected; and six Ordinary Fellows have 

 died — viz. Mr. C. E. Collins, the Rev. Professor William 

 Purdie Dickson, D.D., Dr. H. W. Livett, M.D., Mr. Lionel de 

 Niceville, F.L.S., Miss Eleanor A. Ormerod, LL.D., and Mr. 

 H. W. Vivian, M.A. Three Fellows have resigned and 

 twenty-nine Fellows have been elected. The number lost by 

 death and resignation is far below the average, whilst the 

 number of Fellows elected is exactly the same as during last 

 year, and is far above the average. It is to be hoped that 

 the efforts made to bring fresh blood into the Society will 

 be maintained. 



At present the Society consists of twelve Honorary Fel- 

 lows and four hundred and fifty-nine Life and Subscribing 

 Fellows, making a total of 471, which represents a member- 

 ship greater than in any previous year since the Society's 

 foundation. 



The Transactions for the year 1901 form a volume of 601 

 pages, containing nineteen Memoirs, contributed by the 

 following authors — Mr. Gilbert J. Arrow (two Papers), Mr. 

 George C. Champion, Mr. G. 0. Champion and Dr. Thomas 

 Algernon Chapman, Mr. W. L. Distant (two Papers), Mr. 

 Horace St. John K. Donisthorpe, Mr. Charles J. Gahan, Sir 

 George Hampson, Bart., Mr. Martin Jacoby, Mr. Oliver 

 Janson, Mr. William J. Kaye, Mr. Percy Lathy, the late 

 Mr. John H. Leech and Mr. Richard South, Mr. Edward 

 Meyrick, the Rev. Francis D. Morice, Mrs. Mary de la Beche 

 Nicholl and Mr. H. J. Elwes, Mr. Edward Saunders, and Mr. 

 William Schaus. 



Of these nineteen papers six relate to Coleoptera, two to 

 Hemiptera, two to Hymenoptera, and five to Lepidoptera. 

 The absence of any papers ou Orthoptera, Xeuroptera and 

 Diptera is to be regretted. 



The entire cost of Plates XT. and XII. has been defrayed 

 by Mr. Schaus. 



The Memoirs above referred to are illustrated by sixteen 

 Plates, of which thirteen are coloured— a number which, as 

 regards coloured Plates, is much greater than usual. 



