THE ENTOMOLOGIST’S 
WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER. 
No. 121.] SATUEDAY, JANUARY 22, 1859. [Price Id. 
Valeria Oleagina. (See p. 131). 
THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 
The Entomological Society of London 
holds its Anniversary Meeting on 
Monday next. Many of the Members 
never attend the Anniversary Meetings, 
though we can hardly comprehend 
why. The custom at the Anniversary 
Meeting is for the President to deliver 
an elaborate address on the recent 
history, present position and future pro- 
spects of the Society; the preparation 
of this address requires a considerable 
amount of thought, and the statistical 
details in it, which are read so glibly, 
take much time before they can be 
placed in so simple, so intelligible a 
form : the delivery of this address 
occupies nearly an hour. Now, to 
say the least of it, it is surely a very 
poor compliment to the President to 
allow, as is too often the case, that 
his Anniversary Address should he de- 
livered to beggarly rows of empty 
benches. Young Members w'ho have 
only recently joined the Society may 
be excused, if, ignorant of the precise 
nature of the Anniversary Meeting, 
they abstain from attending ; but, to 
our notions, this Meeting is the most 
interesting of the series, and why it 
should be so systematically shirked is 
to us a mystery. 
The only exceptions that occur to 
us of Anniversary Meetings being well 
attended have been when some op- 
position was proposed to the election 
of the officers, &c., recommended by 
the Council. This simply endorses the 
odd view of human nature, that some 
people who care nothing for music 
will go readily enough to Jullien’s 
when there is likely to be a row. Of 
course in all rows there is a certain 
amount of excitement ; and the desi)^ 
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