THE ENTOMOLOGISTS 
WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER. 
No. 106.] SxiTURDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1858. [Price Id. 
THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 
The present Entomological Society of 
London was founded in 1833, a pre- 
liminary meeting being held on the 
3rd of May, in that year, and “ the 
first General Meeting was held at the 
Thatched House Tavern, St. James’ 
Street, on the 22nd of May, 1833 ; 
J. F. Stephens, Esq., in the chair.” At 
the next meeting of the Society, held 
at the Society’s rooms, 17, Old Bond 
Street, November 4th, 1833, the By- 
Laws of the Society were read and 
adopted, and thenceforward the Society 
has regularly met on the first Monday 
of each Month at 8 p. m., the Annual 
General Meeting or Anniversary jNfeeting 
being held on the fourth Monday in 
January. 
The first President of the Society 
was J. G. Children, Esq., whose term 
of office expired in January, 1835. The 
Rev. F. W. Hope then occupied the chair 
till January, 1837, when he was suc- 
ceeded by James Francis Stephens, Esq. 
In 1839 Mr. Hope was again elected 
President, and was succeeded, in 1841, 
by W. Wilson Saunders, Esq. In 1843 
Mr. Saunders vacated the chair, and was 
succeeded by Mr. Newport, our great 
physiologist; and, in 1845, Mr. Hope, 
for the third time, was elected Presi- 
dent. In 1847 Mr. Hope left the 
Society, and was succeeded in the 
Presidential Chair by William Spence, 
Esq. 
The Society had retained its vitality 
all these years, but still there was a 
degree of languor and lassitude creeping 
over the frame, which did not escape 
the observant eye of Mr. Saunders, who 
suggested, as a means of infusing new 
blood into the system, that a new class 
of Members, termed Subscribers, should 
be admitted who should be exempt 
from the admission fee of £2 2s. In 
Mr. Spence he found a warm coadjutor, 
and the proposal was happily and most 
successfully carried out. Mr. Spence, 
in his Anniversary Address, in 1849, 
thus alludes to the subject: — 
“ The most important event in the 
history of our Society during the past 
year, has been the passing of a new By- 
Law, suggested by Mr. Saunders, esta- 
blishing, under the denomination of 
Subscribers, a new class of Members, 
who, without any admission -fee, and 
paying only the usual annual contribu- 
tion of one guinea, are entitled to all the 
privileges of Members, except those of 
voting at the Meetings, and possessing 
any share in the insects, books and other 
property of the Society. 
“ This alteration of our laws, though 
made only within the last two months. 
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