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The Animal Reports of the Corresponding Secretary, Treasurer and 

 Standing Committees on Colcoptera, Lepidoptera, Hymenoptera, Diptera, 

 Neuroptera &c., Library and Publication were read. 



The Committee on Mr. Bland's paper read November 11th, reported in 

 favor of its publication in the Proceedings of the Society. 



' DONATIONS TO CABINET. 



18G specimens oi' IL/menoptera, 9 Ilemiptcra^ 6 Neuroptera^ and 3 Cole- 

 optera, from Dr. T. B. Wilson. 



20 specimens of Hemiptera, 20 Neuroptera, and 16 Hi/menoptera, from 

 Charles Wilt. 



90 specimens of Colcoptera^ from John Pearsall. 



24 specimens of Cohoplcra^ from Rev. J. H. McFarland. 



7 specimens of Hemiptera^ 5 Hymenoptera, 4 Lepidoptera, and 4 Dip- 

 tera, from Dr. G. H. Horn. 



15 specimens of Coleoptera, from Dr. Samuel Lewis. 



4 specimens of Coleoptera, from Robert Stretton. 



Also a very fine male specimen of Dorcus hrevis Say, captured in New 

 Jersey and presented by Grcorge Newman. 

 Total, — 374 specimens. 



DONATIONS TO LIBRARY. 



Prairie Farmer {Cliicar/o, 111.), Vol. 8, Nos. 18 to 21. From the 

 Editors. 



Z()olo(]y of the Valley of the Great Salt Lake of Utah. Insects hy 

 Prof. S'. S. Haldeman. Philadelphia, 1852, Deposited by Chas. Wilt. 



WRITTEN COMMUNICATIONS. 



Letters were read from Mr. H. T. Fay of Columbus, Ohio, and Mr. W. 

 H. S. Wood of New York, acknowledging their election as Correspondents 

 of the Society. 



The following papers were presented for publication in the Proceedings : 

 " Descriptions of some Larvae of North American Coleoptera, by Baron 

 R. Osten Sacken." 

 " New American Micro-Lepidoptera, by Brackenridge Clemens, M. D." 

 " The Tarantula (Mygale Hentzii Girard) and its destroyer (Pompilus 

 formosus Say^, by S. B. Buckley." 

 And were referred to Committees. 



ELECTIONS. 



Messrs. John McMeichel, and George W. Gallierd, of this city were 



