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States. This gave liim the opportunity of getting into touch with American ento- 

 mologists, of doing some collecting, and the chance of entering into exchanges; 

 and led up to his election as a Corresponding Member of the Academy of Natural 

 Sciences of Philadelphia. His own brief record of this visit is given in the 

 "Annulosa of Soutii Africa" (p. 17) in the following words: — "The species of 

 Cremastocheilus are not common. In company with Dr. Pickering, and Mr. Titian 

 Peale, I found G. castaneae of Keck, in June, 1836, on the banks of the Delaware, 

 on the New Jersey side, opposite Philadelphia. These singular beetles are never 

 found except flying, like Cicindelae, over the sand which there lines the bank of 

 that noble river." 



Soon after his arrival in England in the autumn of 1836, W. S. Macleay was 

 presented at Court, as a mark of approbation of the way in which he had carried 

 out his responsible official duties in Cuba. 



He soon received a welcome back into scientific circles in London. In 1837, 

 he was elected to the Council of the Linnean Society. The Lord Bishop oZ 

 Norwich, Dr. Stanley, father of Dean Stanley, and of Captain Owen Stanley, was 

 President. Among the Members of Council were J. J. Bennett of the British 

 Museum, George Bentham, Robert Brown, the Earl of Derby, President of the 

 Zoological Society, Dr. Horsfield, and Richard Owen. 



In the same year, he was elected to the Council of the Zoological Society. 

 Thomas Bell and Richard Owen were Members of the Council at this time. We 

 have some interesting relics of W . S . Macleay's connection with the Society, in 

 the shape of notices to attend Council or other meetings, signed by W. H . 

 TaiTell as secretary; and proofs of two papers submitted to him as a member 

 of the Publication Committee. 



About the same time, too, W. S. Macleay was elected to the Council of the 

 British Association for the Advancement of Siience, and President of Section D at 

 the meeting of the Association held at Liverpool in September, 1837. The Earl 

 of Burlington was President, but the Address was delivered by Professor Traill. 

 The Presidents of Sections were: Sec. A, Sir David Brewster; Sec. B, Dr. 

 Faraday; See. C, Professor A. Sedg-wick; Sec. D (Botany and Zoology), W, 

 Sharp Macleay: and Sec. E, Professor Clark. The Vice-Presidents of Sec. D. 

 were Dr. Richardson, Professor Graham, and Professor Lindley; and the Secre- 

 taries, Professor Bahington, W. Swainson. and the Rev. L. Jen\Tis. No papers 

 of particular interest to us were communicated to Section D. But .John Gould 

 exhibited coloured drawings of Australian and New Zealand birds; and W. S. 

 Macleay and the Rev. F. W. Hope described some insects from the fine collec- 

 tion of Mr. Melly, then resident in Liverpool. It was a very successful and in- 

 teresting meeting, as described by R. Murchison, General Secretary', in a letter to 

 his wife ["Life of Sir Roderick Murchison," Vol. i.. p. 238]. The Rev. W. B. 

 Clarke attended ; and he, .lohn Gould, who left England for Tasmania in 1838. and 

 W . S . Macleay had the opportunity of meeting again in Sydney in 1839. 



After the "Beagle" had completed lier voyage, and W. S. Macleay bad re- 

 turned to England from Cuba, Charles Darwin and he seem to have met, in 1836 

 or early in 1837. For, in a letter dated April 10th, 1837, written by Darwin to 

 the Rev. L. Jen.\-ns, he says — "During the last week several of the zoologists of 

 this place [London] have been urging me to consider the possibility of publishing 

 the 'Zoology of the Beagle's Voyage' on some uniform plan. Mr. [W. S,] 

 Macleay has taken a gi'eat deal of interest in the subject, and maintains that such 



