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Eleventh Meeting — March 18, 1850. 

 J. B. YATES, Esq., in the Chair. 



Mr. A. EiMMER exhibited, and preser.ted to the Society, a 

 fragment of a log of red pine from Canada. The original was 

 twelve and a half feet long, and contained a very large insect 

 nest. The wood was perforated longitudinally, amd in some 

 places the holes were large enough to contain an orange. The 

 external part was perfectly sound. The entrance to the nest 

 was by a minute aperture, at right angles to the woody fibre. 

 Many hymenopterous insects were found in the cavities. 



Mr. J. S. Walker, a visitor, presented to the Society a 

 copy of the first number of the Edinhirgh Coiirant, published 

 in 1705. 



Mr. Yates produced from his library a valuable Manuscript, 

 entitled. The Rights and Jurisdiction of the County Palatine of 

 Chester — The Earls Palatine — The Chamberlains and other 

 Officers — Disputes concerning the Jurisdiction of the Exchequer 

 Court within the City of Chester, etc. 



This MS., which has never been published, appears to have 

 been written A.D. 1603, and occupies 2G pages, closely 

 written. It contains — 



1st. A brief history of the Exchequer of Chester, with a 

 detailed account of the dispute between the Mayor of Chester, 

 and the Chamberlain and Yice-Chamberlain of that Exchequer, 

 in 1561, including an Order of the Court of Exchequer of 

 Westminster, in Hilary Term, 5th Eliz., by which the dispute 

 was terminated; and it concludes with suggestions for the 

 maintainance of the privileges of the Palatinate, made shortly 

 after the accession of James the First. 



