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Hertford, discovered among his wheat, which was badly damaged from 

 a cause unknown to him, a number of flax-seed-like objects, which he 

 sent for identification to the late Professor Westwood, who pronounced 

 them to be the puparia of the Hessian fly. Within that same week 

 there appeared in all the newspapers long articles about the Hessian fly 

 by those who knew little or nothing about the habits of the fly, but 

 who merely copied what had been written, mistakes and all, in American 

 works. At that time he (Mr. Enock) knew nothing himself about the 

 Hessian fly, save by name, and so took the opportunity of visiting 

 Mr. Palmer and securing permission to enter his fields for the purpose 

 of studying the fly. It took him two years to work out the complete 

 life-history of the Hessian fly, at the end of which time he read a paper 

 on the subject before the Entomological Society, and, so far as he knew, 

 that was the first complete account of the Hessian fly that had ever 

 been given in this or any other country, though its existence had been 

 known in America for over a hundred years. 



On the conclusion of Mr. Enock's demonstration the President said 

 he wished to take upon himself the very pleasant duty of thanking 

 Mr. Enock for his extremely interesting lecture. He thought from the 

 close attention with which those present had followed the lecture that 

 Mr. Enock would readily appreciate the amount of pleasure he had 

 given, and the interest he had aroused in a subject on which he had 

 done such magnificent work. 



Mr. Heron-Allen seconded the proposal, which was carried by 

 acclamation. 



The President announced that the Roll was on the table for any- 

 one to sign who had not yet done so. 



It was also annouuced that the Brass and Glass Section would meet 

 on Wednesday, April 22, when a demonstration would be given of a new 

 Micro-objective and various illuminating apparatus by Carl Zeiss. 



Notice was given that the next Meeting of the Biological Section 

 would be held on Wednesday, May 6, when there would be a lecture 

 on the " Ova and Larvas of Water-mites." 



The President then made the following important announcement, 

 viz : — 



That in future the Proceedings of the previous Meeting, together 

 with the Agenda for the next, would be sent early in each month to 

 every Fellow who expressed to the Secretaries a wish to have his name 

 placed upon the mailing list. 



