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“ all future Transactions be paid for by voluntary subscriptions com¬ 
bined ■with such sum as the Council may vote from the general funds 
of the Society ” it is hoped that the surplus of ordinary income over 
ordinary expenditure will gradually pay off the debt. 
The Society may well congratulate itself on having acquired the 
services as curators of two such energetic members as IMessrs. 1^. M. 
Dadd and W. I. Cox. To clean and re-arrange a cabinet of 40 
drawers entails much labour and demands much time, yet this is what 
those gentlemen have done, and I may say they have added some pounds 
to the value of our collection by so doing. Since the last annual meet¬ 
ing the Society’s collection has been enriched by donations from the 
following ten members: Drs. F. J. Duckell and J. S. Sequeira, 
Messrs. L. D. Trout, -T. A. Clark, A. Dacot, C. Nicholson, W. Dates, 
H. Fuller, E. U. Dadd, and W. I. Cox. In all, 47S insects have been 
given to the Society, which is the largest number recorded for anyone 
year, and exceeds the total contributions for the last 13 years. It is 
to be hoped that the generosity of the few members who have contri¬ 
buted this year will be highly contagious to others in the next, as there 
is still a large space available for the reception of the much-solicited 
donations. 
Much interesting scientific matter has been brought before tbe 
members during the year in the form of papers, which comprise the 
following: 
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Presidential Address 
“ ?)ome Cicadidrs” 
Explanatory Paper on the Order 
“ tlymenoptera ” 
“Darwin” 
“ The Dritish Corvidse ”... 
“ On .some Heredity Experiments 
with ('nremia fi'rrii<icita, L.” 
“ The IMicroscopical Inhabitants 
of a Stagnant Ditch ” 
“ Causes of Variation,” translated 
from the German of Standfuss 
“ The Protective Coloration and 
Defensive Habits of Lepidop- 
terous Larva'! ” 
“ Beetle Coloration ” 
“ Genus Jdiiplara and species of 
PapilionidiB ^limicking it ” ... 
“ Notes on the Broads ”... 
“Nature”... 
“ IMetamorphosis of Insects ” 
“ ('hrysanthemums ” 
J. W. 'I’utt. 
A. Quihl. 
F. B. Jennings. 
L. J. Tremayne. 
Stanley Austin. 
L. B. Trout. 
C. Nicholson. 
E. ^I. Dadd. 
J. W. Tutt. 
H. Heasler. 
S. Edwards. 
H. A. Fuller. 
A. Bacot. 
J. W. Tutt. 
J. Riches. 
These papers reveal a fair variety in their scope, and the exhibits 
this year have by no means been iimited to the order Lepidoptera. 
As a"“ Natural History ” Society we ought to welcome this. 
Allow me personally to thank the members for their support of the 
officers, and I trust they will aid tbe Secretaries in the coming year 
by all means in their power, by giving full notes of exhibits, and by 
volunteering papers on subjects in which they are interested, and which 
are therefore bound to interest others. H. A. Sauze, H»n. SVr. 
