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scrupulous attention is still required to the reporting secretary’s need 
of detailed notes of exhibits from exhibitors. 
The customary three field meetings were held during the summer 
but the attendance at same was meagre in the extreme ; in previous 
seasons a similar state of affairs has been attributed to ill-luck in the 
matter of weather but this was certainly not the reason in 1911. 
Entries in the Minute Book under the heading “ Donations,” are 
somewhat few and far between ; to Mr. Mera the Society is once 
again indebted for the latest complete volume of the “ Entomologist’s 
Record,” while Mr. Shaw presented volume iv. of the same magazine, 
needed to complete the series in the Society’s library. 
If a personal note may be permitted in conclusion the Reporting 
Secretary would like to express his appreciation of members’ goodwill 
and courtesy during his twelve years of office, six as corresponding 
secretary, and six as reporting secretary ; he feels that he is now 
entitled, if not to complete freedom, at least to transference to an office 
where he can still be of service to the Society, but under somewhat 
less exacting conditions ; the Corresponding Secretary also makes his 
bow to members and regrets that he finds that he is not now able to 
give the work the attention that it merits. 
The retiring secretaries wish their successors every success and 
look forward with confidence to the proverbial results of the use of 
new brooms and the infusion of new blood. 
Details of the programme for the past session are appended as 
usual. 
1910, Dec. 20. Discussion—“ The relative value of 
Environment and Heredity as 
factors in production of Local 
Races” ... ... Opened by 
1911, Jan. 3. Pocket Box Exhibition. 
,, 17. Notes on Collecting Experiences in 
1910 
Feb. 7. Holiday Notes from Exmoor 
„ 21. A Note on “ Scoparia ” . 
Mar. 7. Exhibition and Discussion—“ Cos- 
miidse” ... ... Opened by 
,, 21. Notes on “ Drepanulidfe” ... 
April 4. Collecting experiences in 1910 ... 
,, 18. Special Exhibit—Genus Triphrena. 
L. B. Prout, 
F.E.S. 
Chas. Capper. 
J. E. Gardner, 
F.E.S. 
Dr. T. A. Chap¬ 
man, F.E.S. 
P. H. Tautz, 
F.E.S. 
A. J. Willsdon. 
R. G. Todd, 
F.E.S. 
Nov. 7. “ Notes on Breeding and Collecting 
during the record summer of 
1911”. 
xxi. 
Mr. L. W. New¬ 
man, F.E.S. 
