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The election of the Council for the ensuing year resulted in the 
following officers being appointed: President, Mr. L. ]>. Front, 
F.E.8. ; Vice-Presidents, I\les.srs. J. A. Clark, F.E.S., F, J. Hanbury, 
F.L.S., F.E.8.,and J. W. Tutt, F.E.S. ; Treasurer, ]\fr. ('. Nicholson, 
F.E.S. ; Librarians, Mr. 1). C. Pate and Dr. T. A. Chapman, F.E.S.; 
Curators, Messrs. W. 1. Cox and E. M. Dadd; Secretaries, Messrs. H. 
A. Sauze and H. St. J. K. Donisthorpe. A ballot for the five other 
members of the Council was taken, Messrs. A. Bacot, H. A. Fuller, E. 
Heasler, F. B. Jennings, and H. H. May being chosen. 
This was followed by the 
PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS, 
By Mr. J. W. Tutt, F.E.S., 
of which the following is a very brief summary : 
Gentlemen, 
On Dec. 4th, 1894, at the invitation of your then President, INIr. J. 
A. Clark, I read an address to the members of this Society. At each of 
the annual Meetings since that date I have read a Presidential address, 
so that the present occasion makes no less than the fifth consecutive 
time on which I have addressed you. That you must be heartily tired 
of such a persistent talker for President, I have no possible doubt, yet 
I can hardly allow the year in which I vacate the Chair, to pass by 
without reviewing first of all the general history and present position 
of this Society, whilst at the same time a few words of thanks to you 
all are necessary for your unvarying kindness towards me, since I have 
held the Presidential Chair. 
Few, perhaps, of our youngei’ members recognise the antiquity of 
the Society of which they are members, fewer, probably, know the 
vicissitudes through which it has passed. It was inaugurated in 1858, 
in Haggerston, and for many years was known as the Haggerston 
Entomological Society, for a period of thirty years was held in that 
district, and was composed essentially, though not entirely, of working¬ 
men members. Original papers read l)efore the Society occasionally 
found their Avay into the pages of the Zodhxjii^t and other magazines, 
but the members, at this time, were much more interested in the col¬ 
lection of specimens than in the science of entomology, as we under¬ 
stand it, but by 1867, we find that the Society had acquired a library 
of 200 volumes and a cabinet containing some 2,000 specimens of 
insects, some of the latter being, at that period, very rare. In 1874 
the membership reached above 100, and for a time the Society was very 
active. Its determined and successful opposition to the various 
attempts made to destroy and enclose parts of Epping Forest, and its 
insistence on a suitable room for the Doubleday collectioii and its 
thorough preservation are matters of entomological history. In August 
1887, it was determined to call a general meeting to consider the 
advisability of removing the Society to a more central position, and, 
on October 6th, the reconstructed Society held its first meeting in the 
City under its present style and title. It was at this time that 1 
became a member of the Society and some little time afterwards, ]\Ir. 
Clark became the perennial President, and maintained the Society at 
a high state of perfection, although as 'rreasurer he invariably found 
himself in debt at the end of the year owing to the low rate of sub- 
