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a mountainous country under more perfect conditions than we saw 

 Switzerland, and when we consider the variety of its scenery and 

 the interest of its geological formation, the luxuriance and diversity 

 of its flora, and the abundance and multiformity of its insect fauna, 

 we cannot better describe this beautiful country than in the words 

 with which I commenced my address — Switzerland, a Naturalist's 

 paradise. 



Reports of Societies. 



ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON 



18th January, 1893. — The Sixtieth Annual Meeting. — -Frederick DuCane Godman, 

 Esq., F.R.S., President, in the chair. An Abstract of the Treasurer's accounts 

 having been read by one of the Auditors, the Secretary, Mr. H. Goss, read the Re- 

 port of the Council. After the ballot it was announced that the following gentlemen 

 had been elected as Officers and Council for 1893 : — President, Mr. Henry J. ELwes, 

 F.L.S, : Treasurer, Mr. Robert McLachlan. F.R.S. ; Secretaries, Mr. Herbert Goss, 

 FlL.S., and the Rev. Canon Fowler, MA., F.L.S. ; Librarian, Mr. George C. 

 Champion, F.Z.S. ; and as other Members of the Council, Mr. C. G. Barrett, Mr. 

 Charles J. Gahan, MA , Mr. F. DuCane Godman, F.R.S. , Mr. Frederick Merrifield, 

 Mr. Osbert Salvin, M.A., F.R.S., Dr. David Sharp, M.A., F.R.S., Colonel 

 Charles Swinhoe, M.A., F.L.S., and Mr. George H. Verrall. The President then 

 delivered an Address, which, though containing reference to the Society's internal 

 affairs and an allusion to the successful resistance made by naturalists and others to 

 the War Office scheme for establishing a rifle range in the New Forest, consisted for 

 the most part of full obituary notices of Fellows of the Society who had died during 

 the year, special mention being made of Mr. Henry W. Bates, F.R.S., Professor 

 Hermann, C. C. Burmeister, M.D., Dr. Carl A. Dohrn, Mr. H. Berkeley-James, 

 Mr. J. T. Harris, Sir Richard Owen, K.C.B., F.R.S., Mr. Henry T. Stainton, 

 F.R.S., Mr. Howard Vaughan, and Professor J. O. Westwood, M.A., the Hon. 

 Life President. A vote of thanks to the President having been proposed by Lord 

 Walsingham, F.R.S., and seconded by Mr. j. H. Leech, Mr. Godman, replied. 

 Dr. D. Sharp, F.R.S., then proposed a vote of thanks to the Secretaries, Treasurer 

 and Librarian, which was seconded by Mr. W H. B. Fletcher, Mr. McLachlan, 

 Mr. Goss, and Canon Fowler then severally replied, and the proceedings terminated. 

 — H. Goss and W. W. Fowler, Secretaries. 



CITY OF LONDON ENTOMOLOGICAL AND NATURAL 



HISTORY SOCIETY. 



Tuesday January 3rd, 1893. — Exhibits: — Mr, Clark, two varieties of Argynnis 

 selene, one with the upperside dusted with black scales, the other having the black 

 markings coalescing in a central band, a specimen of A, euphrosyne with a pale 

 (xanthic) hind wing, and a small and darkly suffused specimen of Saiurnia carpini. 

 Mr, Bloomfield, a bred series of Papilio machaon, one specimen having a red inner 

 margin to the black band on the hind wings ; a series of Colias edusa, including a 

 female without the yellow spots in the marginal band ; also spring and summer 

 specimens of Selenia illunaria. Mr. Battley, a variable series of the undersides of 

 Epinephele hyperanthus from Caterham and North Devon. He pointed out that the 

 lower spot on the upper wing was frequently absent, and that in no case were the 



