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In the matter of membership we have only gained four recruits; 
on the other hand, we have to deplore the loss of one of our oldest 
members, the late Mr. J. A. Clark, while grave misfortune in the 
shape of loss of sight has overtaken another of our senior members, 
Dr. J. S. Sequeira, who has the heartfelt sympathy of all his 
fellow members in his affliction. To the death of one regular 
attendant at our meetings, the incapacitation of another, and the 
enforced absence during several months of one of the secretaries, also 
(if it may he mentioned) usually a regular attendant, the falling off 
in the attendance may doubtless be at least in part attributed. 
As regards donations, the Society is once more indebted to the 
generosity of Bev. C. B. N. Burrows, who has presented to the 
Society an interleaved copy of Staudinger and Bebel’s Catalogue, 
while Mr. Mera has again added the latest volume of the Record to 
the library. 
Three field meetings were—or, rather, should have been—held 
during June and July; the weather is seldom kind to us on these 
occasions, and it is therefore not surprising, in view of the excep¬ 
tionally bad summer of 1909, that all three meetings were rendered 
impossible by heavy rain. 
The usual annual volume of Transactions has been issued, and 
has, we believe, achieved a record in bulk, which has unfortunately 
caused a corresponding enlargement of the debit side of the Trea¬ 
surer’s account. Some inconsistencies of nomenclature appearing 
therein have incurred criticism in the Record. The critique was 
doubtless welcomed by readers of the magazine as affording some 
change from their usual somewhat monotonous monthly mental 
pabulum of records of Alpine jaunts; it should also lead to reform 
of the Society’s methods, in the direction of relieving the Secretaries 
of the task of compiling this volume, and placing it in the hands of 
those more competent to deal with it, and possessing the temerity 
necessary to revise members’ various nomenclatural idiosyncrasies, 
even at the risk of making the papers more or less unintelligible to 
their authors. 
The programme for the Winter Session, details of which are 
annexed, embraced many interesting items in the shape of Papers, 
Discussions, and Special Exhibits. The number of papers read was 
perhaps less than usual, owing to one member being unable to fulfil 
his engagement to the Society in this respect. 
1908, Dec. 15. Notes on Breeding “ Sesia andreni- 
formis 
1909, Jan. 5. Pocket Box Exhibition. 
,, 19. Exhibition and Discussion. “ The 
Fidoniids ” ... Opened by 
Feb. 2. Life-history of “ Coenobia rufa ” ... 
,, 16. “ Pseudoterpna pruinata” ... 
Mr. E. A. Cock¬ 
ayne, F.E.S. 
Mr. L. B. Prout, 
F.E.S. 
Mr. H. M. Edel- 
sten, F.E.S. 
Bev. C. B. N. 
Burrows. 
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