THE EHTOMOLOGISrS 
WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER. 
No. 243.] SATUEDAY, JUNE 1, 1861. [Price Id. 
THE LAST MEETING, 
On Monday next tbe Entomological 
Society of London meets in its present 
rooms, 12, Bedford Bow, for the last 
timej it then moves into more spacious 
quarters. 
This is the first time since the 
foundation of the Society that it has 
outgrown its domicile. In its earliest 
infancy it was located at 17, Old Bond 
Street; in 1852, however, in conse* 
quence of the dilapidated condition of 
the tenement in Bond Street, and the 
tendency shown by the ceiling to gra- 
vitate towards the floor, it became 
necessary for the Society to move, and 
it then migrated to 12, Bedford Bow, 
Holbom, where the Members were never 
tired of congratulating one another on 
the great improvement in the accom- 
modation to that which they had pre- 
viously enjoyed in Bond Street. That 
within ten years the growth of the 
Society should be such that it literally 
‘had no option but to remove to where 
it could have more space, is a most 
gratifying reflection, especially now that 
thfire is a prospect of our not being 
personally inconvenienced by the in- 
crease in numbers of the attendants at 
the Meetings. 
Many who have only recently joined 
the Entomological Society, and have 
expressed disappointment at the poor 
accommodation, will perhaps be sur- 
prised to hear that within the last ten 
years the removal of the Society to 
Bedford Row was considered a step 
up in the world; now another step is 
made upwards by removing from Bed- 
ford Bow. 
An old Member of the Society, who 
had been absent from the Meetings 
for nearly two years, observed, on re- 
joining the circle, that nearly all the 
faces were new ; he recognised, of 
course, a few old stagers, but the 
great mass seemed to be made up of 
new comers, new members. Nothing 
shows more conclusively than this the 
rapid growth of the Society. It may 
be asked why the new Members should 
displace the old ones? for if tbe new 
Members were only additions to the 
previous body of Members, though one 
might see some strange faces, still there 
would be the mass of old friends as a 
nucleus. 
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