Linnaean Society. 409 



Read also " a Description of a new Indian species of Paussus." 

 By J. O. Westwood, Esq., F.L.S., &c. 



This species, which is in the collection made by Lieut. -Colonel 

 Hearsey mentioned above, approaches Platyrhopalus in having the 

 penultimate joint of its labial palpi about two -thirds the length of 

 the terminal joint. In all its other characters, however, it accords so 

 exactly with the Indian species of Mr. Westwood's second division 

 of the genus Paussus, that were the antennae broken off, it would be 

 almost impossible to distinguish it from Paussus cognatus. 



Paussus Hearseyanus, rufo-castaneus nitidus punctatus, elytris singulis 

 plaga lata longitudinali nigra, capite pone oculos carina elevata trans- 

 versa alteraque longitudinali mediana ad nasum fereducta, antennarum 

 clava subovata basi extus in hamum producta ; margine postice super- 

 neque oblique 3-impvesso. 



The only specimen known was captured by Col. Hearsey at Be- 

 nares by night, having flown against the lamp and fallen upon the 

 table, a habit observed in other species of the genus by several Indian 

 entomologists. 



May 5. — The Lord Bishop of Norwich, President, in the Chair. 

 Read a portion of Dr. Hamilton Buchanan's Commentary on the 

 8th Part of Rheede's ' Hortus Malabaricus.' 



May 24. — The Lord Bishop of Norwich, President, in the Chair. 



This day, the Anniversary of the birth of Linnaeus, and that ap- 

 pointed by the Charter for the Election of Council and Officers, the 

 President opened the business of the Meeting, and stated the num- 

 ber of Members whom the Society had lost during the past year, of 

 some of whom the Secretary read the following notices : — 



Sir Charles Bell, K.H., F.R.S. Lond. St Ed., Professor of Surgery 

 in the University of Edinburgh. 



The very recent death of this eminent surgeon and distinguished 

 physiologist precludes on the present occasion any detailed account 

 of his life and works. He was born in Edinburgh in 1778, and the 

 early part of his life was spent in his native city as the assistant of 

 his brother John in his surgical lectures. He came to London in 

 1806, and became lecturer on surgery at the Hunterian School in 

 Windmill Street, and afterwards one of the surgeons of the Middlesex 

 Hospital. His important discoveries in the functions of the Nervous 

 System, by which his fame has been most widely spread, were com- 

 municated in a series of papers read before the Royal Society, com- 

 mencing in 1821. On the accession of King William the Fourth he 

 received the honour of knighthood ; and in 1836 he returned to 

 Edinburgh, having been appointed to the Professorship of Surgery 

 in that University. He died almost suddenly at the beginning of 

 the present month. 



John Eddowes Boioman, Esq., was born at Nantwich in Cheshire, 

 on the 30th October, 1785. He was in early life confined to busi- 

 ness during more than twelve hours of the day, and yet con- 

 trived, by early rising, to cultivate a taste for botany, which he had 



