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PROCEEDINGS OF NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETIES. 



ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



May 7. — J. F. Stephens, Esq., Pres., in the chair. — Mr. Sells exhibited speci- 

 mens of the rare Copris lunaris, and of the curious cocoon in which it passes the pupa 

 state. Mr. Ashton presented a figure of a specimen of Notonecta furcata, infested 

 by a minute parasite which attaches itself to its leg; and Mr. Aldous presented 

 his highly -magnified figure of the head of the Flea, as represented under the 

 solar microscope, exhibiting all the parts of the mouth, respecting which so much 

 uncertainty had pre vailed. — Various other exhibitions were made by members, and 

 a discussion took place as to the nature of the food of the Bot of the Horse ; Mr. 

 Sells maintaining that it was nourished upon fluids from the vascular structure 

 of the Horse's stomach, in opposition to the opinion of Mr. Bracy Clark, that 

 they fed upon chyle or chyme. — The Rev. F. W. Hope communicated a table of 

 the genera and species of insects infested by Filarice and other parasitic Worms. 

 — The commencement of a monograph on the Coleopterous genus Popillia,hy Mr. 

 Newman, was read. 



ORNITHOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



May 5. — J. R. Gowen, Esq., in the chair. — The report of the Council stated 

 that the Hon. P. C. Scarlett, M.P., the Hon. J. Y. Scarlett, M.P., C. B. 

 Brown, Esq., and Mr. E. Mammatt, had been elected members of the Society. 

 A donation of specimens had been received from the Lady Rolle ; and it was 

 announced that the Commissioners of Her Majesty's Woods and Forests had 

 caused some ponds and shallows to be made on the larger island in St. James's Park, 

 in compliance with a request to that effect made to them by the Council of the 

 Society. — The Council had not had time to act upon the system determined on in the 

 recently-passed bye-laws for the renroval and election of officers and members of 

 the Council ; but they proposed to act upon it as fully as the time would allow. 

 They had, therefore, to announce that they propose the Duke of Buccleugh to 

 be elected President in the room of the Earl of Liverpool, Mr. W. Holl to be 

 Secretary, and F. B. Long, Esq., to be Treasurer ; the following noblemen and 

 gentlemen to retire from the Council : — his Grace the Duke of Bedford, W. G. 

 Chapman, Esq., the Earl of Liverpool, Capt. Mangles, R:N., and Sir J. D. 

 Paul, Bart. ; and the following to be elected in their stead : — his Grace the Duke 

 of Buccleugh, the Hon. P. C. Scarlett, M.P., F. B. Long, Edward Jesse, and 

 0. Morgan, Esqrs. 



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