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February 20. 



George Newport, Esq., in the Chair. 



W. S. Dallas, Esq., and Davyd Williams Nash, Esq., were elected 

 Fellows. 



Read the second part of Mr. Adam White's memoir " On the 

 Animals known to the Ancients, with especial reference to those 

 sculptured on the Monuments of Nineveh." 



March 6. 



R. Brown, Esq., V.P., in the Chair. 



The necessary business of the Meeting having been disposed of, 

 the Vice-President in the Chair proposed, that, in consequence of 

 the recent death of Edward Forster, Esq., Treasurer and Vice-Pre- 

 sident of the Society, and in consideration of his long connexion 

 with, and eminent services to, the Society and to Natural History, 

 the Meeting should adjourn ; which was unanimously agreed to. 



March 20. 



The Lord Bishop of Norwich, President, in the Chair. 



James Gadesden, Esq., and H. F. Richardson, Esq., were elected 

 Fellows, and Mr. Philip Henry Gosse an Associate. 



Read a paper " On the Anatomy and Development of certain Chal- 

 cididae and Ichneumonida, compared with their special economy and 

 instincts ; with descriptions of a new genus and species of Bee Para- 

 site." Part I. By George Newport, Esq., F.R.S. & L.S. 



Mr. Newport remarked that the parasitic Hymenoptera in their 

 larva state are among the most imperfectly organized forms of 

 Articulata, and yet, having passed through this stage of their exist- 



