THE ENTOMOLOGIST'S 
WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER. 
No. 225.] SATURDAY, JANUARY 26, 1861 [Price Id. 
THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 
Two years ago we called the attention 
of our readers to the then prospective 
Anniversary Meeting of the Entomo- 
logical Society of London. We re- 
marked that “ many of the Members 
never attended the Anniversary Meet- 
ings,” though to us the reason for their 
not doing so was not apparent. 
We then stated what was the pre- 
cise nature of an Anniversary Meeting, 
and to those who are uninformed on 
such matters we would refer to our 
former observations (Int. v. 129). 
The Meeting of Monday next has 
a peculiar and somewhat melancholy 
interest — it is the last Anniversary 
Meeting that will take place in 
Bedford Row : never again shall we 
hear the Presidential Address in that 
room. 
Notice to quit has been duly served, 
and the Entomological Society will 
be a moving body at Midsummer. 
Whether its stay in its next domicile 
will be of equal duration with its resi- 
dence in Bedford Row we cannot fore- 
see. Much will probably depend on 
the rapidity of its growth and in- 
crease. 
Each lime that Paterfamilias en- 
larges his house he fancies he does 
so for the last time, and though no 
doubt each removal of a learned 
Society is looked on at the time as a 
final one, finality is a word that has 
no real terrestrial existence. One 
change may be more final than an- 
other, but finality absolute never is 
and never can be attained. 
The changes that have taken place 
within the Entomological Society in 
the last ten years have been very con- 
siderable. Many of the older habitual 
attendants have been removed by death 
— Spence, Stephens, Yarrell, & c., whilst 
the junior Members of the Society 
have increased considerably in num- 
ber ; so that we fancy the average 
age of the present attending Members 
would be considerably less than it was 
ten years ago. 
The vast increase to the Library by 
the presentation of the entomological 
works belonging to the late Dr. Brom- 
field, and the many valuable books 
purchased with the proceeds of the 
sale of the Exotic Collections have 
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