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November 6th, 1895. 
The Right Honorable Lord Walsingham, LL.D., F.R.S., 
Vice-President, in the Chair. 
Donations to the Library were announced, and thanks 
voted to the respective donors. 
Death of the President of the Entomological Society of France. 
Lord Walsingham announced the death of Mons. E. L. 
Ragonot, President of the Entomological Society of France, 
and, since 1887, a Foreign Fellow of the Entomological 
Society of London. He remarked that Mons. Ragonot was 
especially distinguished by his knowledge of the Phijcid(B, a 
Monograph on which group he had brought out in Russia, 
and for his amiable personal qualities and the readiness he 
showed to assist other workers in the identification of species. 
In conclusion, Lord Walsingham said that the loss of Mons. 
Ragonot would be greatly felt not only by the Entomological 
Society of France, but by Entomologists all over the world, 
and that the Council had that evening passed a resolution to 
the effect that the Secretary should write a letter of con- 
dolence to the French Entomological Society on the death of 
their distinguished President. Colonel Swinhoe also spoke 
as to the great loss sustained by the death of Mons. Ragonot, 
and of the kindness and generosity of the deceased which 
he had personally experienced. 
Election of Fellows, 
Mr. Cecil W. Barker, of Malvern, Natal, South Africa ; and 
Lieutenant H. G. R. Beavan, R.N., of the Royal Naval 
College, Greenwich, S.E., were elected Fellows of the Society. 
Exhibitions^ etc. 
The Secretary read a letter from Mr. Waterhouse, calling 
attention to the prospectus of a Monograph by Mr. Ernest 
Green on the Coccidce of Ceylon. A copy of the prospectus 
and specimen plates were shown, and Lord Walsingham and 
Mr. McLachlan commented on the importance of the pro- 
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