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living giraffes, captured in their native locality : an account and picture 

 of them are published in the Mirror, No. 781.; and Penny Magazine, 

 No. 270. 



The Entomological Club of London. — In the Entomological Magazine, 

 No. 16., dated July, 1836, is an account of this ; and the following parti- 

 culars are derived from that account : — The Club was established in 1826, 

 for the purpose of engaging in social meetings at the residences of the 

 members, for the communication of facts, the comparison of notes, the 

 naming of specimens, and for mutual improvement in entomology. The 

 club has existed and regularly met from that time to the present ; and has 

 established a collection, and is possessed of considerable property, from 

 subscriptions for the purchase of cabinets, and from donations of books, spe- 

 cimens of insects, &c. What had been the character of the collection is not 

 stated ; but the prospective character is stated in the following one of the 

 resolutions, which affords, besides, information on other of the Club's pur- 

 poses, " That a general collection be made, consisting of exotic and British 

 insects, Arachnoida, Myriapoda, and Crustacea, with books and manuscripts 

 relating to the science in all its branches ; and that a special object of the 

 Club be to form a model named cabinet of insects unquestionably British" 

 The Club is to consist of eight members, and of honorary corresponding 

 members: the number of the latter may be unlimited. The eight members 

 now are, Messrs. W. Bennett, J. B. Bevington, J. S. Bowerbank, J. F. 

 Christy, A. H. Davis, J. Hoyer, E. Newman, F. Walker. Any vacancy 

 among the members is to be filled up by election from the honorary cor- 

 responding members resident within five miles of the general post-office. 

 Not any pecuniary consideration is to be an essential qualification to mem- 

 bership ; but all voluntary contributions from members, honorary members, 

 or others, are to be received and applied to the purposes of the Club. Not 

 any member is to possess any right or property in the Club, which is to 

 be vested in three trustees, to be elected by ballot, and subject to removal 

 by the vote of the Club. The exertions of the officers are to be gratuitous. 

 The ordinary meetings of the club are to be held monthly at the houses 

 of the members in rotation. The honorary corresponding members have 

 an equal right with the members to attend the ordinary meetings of the 

 Club, and to introduce visiters, either personally or by letter, to inspect 

 the collection. The cabinet and library are to be at the house of the 

 curator, Mr. E. Newman, 21. Union Street, Deptford. 



The Practical Entomological Society. — A society thus entitled has been 

 instituted, and has already enrolled a great number of members. Its 

 principal objects appear to be the keeping up of a social feeling among the 

 metropolitan entomologists, and the formation of a perfect collection of 

 British insects. Its meetings are held weekly : until more suitable accom- 

 modation can be procured, at a tavern, the Duke of Bridgewater, in 

 Macclesfield Street, City Road. {The Entomological Magazine, July, 1836.) 



The Worcestershire Natural History Society. — The anniversary meeting 

 was held on May 25. 1836, at which thanks among the active promoters 

 of the Society's interests were reciprocated. Dr. Buckland, Professor 

 Brongniart, Dr. Milne Edwards, and T. A. Knight, Esq., attended the 

 meeting, the fact of whose presence was emphaticised by Dr. Hastings, 

 by moving " That is is a matter of high congratulation to the members of 

 this Society." Treatises on these subjects were read : — " On the Geology 

 of the Mountains of Merionethshire, by the Rev. T. Pearson of Great 

 Witley ; Observations on the Comet of Halley, as it appeared last year, 

 by the Rev. T. W. Webb of Tretyre, near Ross, Herefordshire; On the 

 Geology of the neighbourhood of Presteign, Radnorshire, by Dr. Davies 

 of Presteign." 



The Warwickshire Natural History Society. — This Society was formed 



