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book that fell into our hands relating to insects ; and these ideas our readers can 

 find in chap, i., sections 836-840, of a Grammar of Entomology, by E. Newman, 

 published some twenty years ago. Notices of New Books Zoology of the Voyage 

 of H.M.S. Herald, part 3 ; Transactions of Linnean Society of London, vol. xxi., 

 part 3 ; Annals of Natural History, Nos. 83 and 84 ; Transactions of Entomological 

 Society of London, vol. Hi., part 3. (C. Collingwood) Birds in the neighbourhood 

 of Blackheath in 1854 ; (W. M. E. Milner) Occurrence of the Snowy Owl in 

 Sutherlandshire ; (G. Norman) Singular Conduct in a Robin ; (J. Hogg) Notice 

 of a Tunny, stranded in the Estuary of the Tees; (E. T. Higgins) Supposed new 

 species of Flounder ; (E. Newman) White specimen of the Flounder ; (E. Charles - 

 worth) Shell-fish Burrowing into Rocks. Proceedings of Societies Entomological 

 Society, January 1, 1855; Anniversary Meeting, January 22, 1855. 



No. 149, March: E. Newman, Esq., President of the Entomological Society 

 of London, delivered his annual address at the anniversary meeting. Mr. Newman 

 gives us a very able resume of the progress entomology has made for the last twelve 

 months and a sketch of the late secretary of the Society, Mr. Wing, who was cut off 

 at the very threshold, as it were, of a brilliant and successful career. Our readers 

 will find a brief notice of his decease in our obituary portion. He also gives a notice of 

 Abel Ingpen, George Newport, Major Champion, and Count Mannerheim, all of them 

 distinguished as entomologists, though not connected with the London Society. 

 We have then a list of those serials, published throughout the year, that contained 

 aught of interest to entomologists such as the " Annals and Magazine of Natural 

 History," &c. The "Zoologist" itself, as one would naturally expect, is also mentioned. 

 At this part of the address, we must say, we expected that the talented and 

 amiable president would have condescended to have noticed our humble labours. 

 Surely, the Rev. J. Greene's carefully compiled Catalogue of Irish Lepidoptera, or 

 Mr. Hogan's list of Dublin Coleoptera, would have been as interesting novelties to 

 mention to the society as the fact that Anthrocera minos was taken in the Co. 

 Galway, an account of which capture, Mr. Newman tells the members, they will find 

 in a January number of the " Zoologist." We have then a very accurate list of 

 Entomological works published, with short criticisms upon nearly all of them, 

 which will be extremely useful. We think the praise given to Mr. Wollaston 

 highly deserved, and we are glad to see it so cordially given. (C. R. Bree) Black 

 Hare, shot at Brome ; (A. G. More) On the three species of Divers or Loons ; 

 (C. R. Bree) Rare Birds captured near Stovvmarket ; (J. H. Gurney) Note on the 

 Eagle which is said to attack the trained Falcons of Asiatic Falconers ; (H. Ste- 

 venson) The Lapland Bunting in Norfolk; (E. Newman) Remarkable variety of 

 the Woodcock ; (A. Roberts) Occurrence of the Shag, the American Scaup, and 

 the Continental Wagtail, near Scarborough ; (A. S. Taylor) Note on the great 

 Vulture of California; (R. H. Stretch) Correction of an error; (A.R.Wallace) 

 The Entomology of Malacca. It will give an idea of the richness of this part of the 

 world in entomology to say, that the result of Mr. Wallace's collecting in Singa- 

 pore and Malacca, for about four months, was a collection of 2,000 species of in- 

 sects. Proceedings of Societies Entomological Society, February 5, 1855, J. 

 Curtis, President, in the Chair. Society of British Naturalists, annual meeting, 

 January 2, 1855, Mr. H. Harding, President, in the Chair. 



