ACCOUNT OF THE GENERAL AND ANNUAL MEETINGS. 171 
THE 53RD ANNUAL, MEETING. 
January 20th, 1916. 
Mr. G. C. Griffiths, F.E.S., was elected President for the year, 
with minor alterations in the Council and Officers. 
Exhibit by Mrs. Sandwith, a living cocoon of the Emperor 
moth. 
After a vote of thanks, accompanied by a bouquet of flowers, 
to the retiring President, who had held the office for three years, 
Miss Ida M. Roper delivered her Presidential address, entitled 
" Mistletoe." (Printed in full in the present Proceedings.) 
THE 453RD GENERAL MEETING. 
February 3rd, 1916. 
" The House-fly and Disease," by Dr. W. A. Smith, M.B. 
This subject has of late attracted much attention as the public 
has begun to realize how dangerous the common fly is to human 
beings and especially to children. The methods by which it 
transfers disease germs are numerous, and its life-history and 
habits, with its freedom in visiting everywhere make it neces- 
sary for constant efforts to be made against its too rapid increase. 
The spread of typhoid fever and infantile diarrhoea when summer 
heat prevails can be clearly traced to the plague of flies, and 
various preventive measures can be easily applied by the public 
with a little care. Many points to bring home the need were 
illustrated by lantern slides. 
Exhibits by Miss I. M. Roper, F.L-S., of the fungus 
Cordiceps militaris on the pupa of a moth ; by Dr. C. K. Rudge 
of an Hemipterous insect from Java mimicking a moth living 
there ; and by the President of the Emperor moth in its two stages 
of growth. 
THE 454TH GENERAL MEETING. 
March 2nd, 19 16. 
"Food Values and Food Economy," bv Mr. C. T. Gimingham. 
Under the war conditions it has become necessary for every 
one to reduce the amount of food consumed, and a knowledge 
of how much is required to sustain efficient powers of work 
enables a proper proportion to be prepared for everyday use. 
To this end a dietary to show the fats, the hydrocarbons, and the 
protein in each article of food is important, as well as to know 
what to avoid in quantity, and many suggestions to bring about 
this were mentioned and the reasons for their effectiveness 
described. 
Exhibits by Mrs. Sandwith of Tadpoles in various stages ; and 
by Mr. L. H. Matthews of a living fifteen-spined stickleback, 
'Gasterosteus spinachia. 
