PROCEEDINGS OF MEETINGS. 



January 9, 1865. 

 President Bland in the Chair. 

 p]leven members present. 



DONATIONS TO LIBRARY. 



The following works were presented by Dr. Thos. B. Wilson : — 

 Exotic Butterflies, by William C. Hewitson. Part. 52. 4to. 

 Proceedings of the Linnean Society. Zoology. Vol.S, No. 29. 8vo. 

 Revue et Magasin de Zoologie, 1864, No. 9. 8vo. 

 Insecta Saundersiana. — Ourculionides. Parts 1 & 2. By Henri 

 Jekel. 8vo. 



Proceedings of the Essex Institute. Vol. 3, and Vol. 4, Nos. 1-3. 8vo. 



WRITTEN COMMUNICATIONS. 



A letter was read from the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution 

 at Washington. D. C, acknowledging the receipt of recent numbers of 

 the Proceedings of the Society. 



A letter was also read from Dr. Thos. B. Wilson, dated Philadelphia. 

 January 3rd, 1865, proposing to present to the Society, one hundred 

 (100) shares of the Capital Stock of the Pennsylvania Railroad Com- 

 pany, on condition that they shall be held in Trust as a Publication 

 Fund. 



The following Papers were presented for publication in the Pro- 

 ceedings : — 



" On the synonymy of Parathyris Angelica Grote, by Aug. R. Grote." 



" Description of the imago and larva of a new species of Chrysopa, 

 by Henry Shinier." 



" Descriptions of North American Lepidoptera, No. 6, by Aug. R. 

 Grote." 



And were referred to Committees. 



NEW BUSINESS. 



The following Preamble and Resolution was offered by Mr. J. W. 

 McAllister, and unanimously adopted : — 



Whereas, Dr. Thomas B. Wilson has most generously offered to pre- 

 sent this Society with One Hundred Shares of the Capital Stock of 

 the Pennsylvania Central Railroad Company, " on condition that they 

 shall be held in Trust by the Society as a Publication Fund, and that 

 the income derived from the same, shall be exclusively applied to the 

 publication of the authorized periodical Publication of this Society, 



