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teen months without food. Ho had also noticed that the 

 unimpregnated females of Pimpla lived very much longer 

 in captivity, than individuals which had been impregnated. 



Mr. B. P. Mann announced the capture of Arctia anna 

 Grote, on the alpine summits of the White Mountains. 



ANNUAL MEETING. 



May 1, 1867. 



The President in the chair. Thirty-four members present. 



Mr. S. H. Scudder presented the following Report of the 

 Society's operations for the past year : — 



The most important events in the history of the past year 

 have been the death of two of the officers of the Society; 

 the bequests of Miss Pratt and Mr. Pope ; the opening of 

 the Lafresnaye collection to the public ; the formation of a 

 new Section holding special meetings ; the division of one 

 of the departments into two ; the measures taken by the 

 Council to furnish all the iinfinished rooms in the building; 

 and the establishment of a sinking fund to provide for pro- 

 sjjectiA^e enlargements of our boundaries. 



In the decease of Drs. A. A. Gould and Henry Bryant — 

 so long officially connected with the Society, so ^jrominent in 

 wise counsel, so munificent in gifts — we have met with an 

 irreparable loss. As notices of their lives and services have 

 been prepared by Committees appointed for that purpose, I 

 need only add that, both before and after the death of Dr. 

 Gould, every reasonable measure was taken to secure his 

 Molluscan collection for our Museum, and that had he lived 

 a few months longer, it would doubtless have come into our 

 possession ; but the funds of a private Institution could not 

 compete with the treasury of a State-Museum, even had it 

 been desirable to expend so great an amount upon a collec- 

 tion which would largely duplicate our own. 



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