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COUNCIL FOR 1862. 
The Curator of Entomology much regrets that increasing 
duties have, for some time past, prevented him from devoting 
so much time as he could wish to the Collections under his 
charge. 
Some time ago he suggested that the Insects should be 
re-arranged more in accordance with the system and nomen¬ 
clature generally adopted hy scientific men at the present day. 
He has now much gratification in announcing that, since the 
last Report, two Members of the York Entomological Society 
have undertaken the task of re-arrani^in^ the Collection of 
British Lepidoptera. These gentlemen, Messrs. Birks and 
Anderson, have already commenced their labours, by the 
arrangement of the Butterflies; and are now engaged upon the 
larger Moths. The Curator hopes that when the arrangement 
of the Collection is complete it will receive many additions, and 
in the course of a short time constitute a standard cabinet of 
reference for local collectors of Lepidoptera. He will himself 
endeavour, with such assistance as he can procure, to re-arrange 
the Collection of Coleoptera, and he trusts that means may be 
found to classify and name the Insects of other orders in the 
Society’s possession, a consummation which would, undoubtedly, 
exercise a most beneficial efiect upon the study of Entomology 
in York and its neighbourhood. 
The Council have to report that in addition to his other 
valuable services, Mr. Baines, the Sub-Curator, has carefully 
cleaned and arranged the whole of the Society’s Botanical 
Specimens during the past year. 
Of the additions to the Library during the year 1862 there 
are few that require special notice. The Treasurer of the 
Society, Wm. Gray, Esq., has presented a copy of the fine work 
of General Boy on the Roman Military Stations in Britain, 
and also a complete set of the Microscopic Journals and Trans¬ 
actions, all of them valuable and important works. The new 
book cases prepared in 1861 have afibrded facilities for the 
re-arrangement of the Library, in such a manner as to classify 
the books contained in it, and a new Manuscript Catalogue, 
adapted to the present arrangement, is now in course of 
preparation. 
