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Mr. Slater read some notes on the effect of magnetism upon insects, and de- 

 tailed the process he adopted for his experiments. 



Mr C O Waterhouse said that a new collection of British insects for public 

 exhibition was being formed at the Natural History Museum at South Kensington. 

 For some of the more popular Orders there was no difficulty in procurmg materials, 

 but for others, such as Diptera, Symenoptera, &c., this was not so easy and he 

 solicited donations of specimens, so as to enable the collection to be made the more 

 complete and representative. 



August UK 1885.-J. JB^•NEB \Ve,e, E.q., F.L.S., Vice-P.-e,ident, in the Chair. 

 Mr T \V Hall, of 3, Sew Inn, Strand, was elected a Fellow. 

 Mr Dunning announced that Her Majesty in Council had been pleased to grant 

 a Eo,al Charter of Incorporation to the Society, which Charter was read by he 

 Secretary. Cordial vote, of thanks were unanimously passed to Messrs. Dunn ng 

 and F. Crisp for the.r gratuitot.s services in connection with the -.".>, on of H. 

 Charter fXhe Editors of this Magazine consider this ausp.cous event a ubj t 

 for congralulation to Brit.sh Entomologists ^-erally, and hope it w. ma^-.a y 

 tend to further the interests and usefulness of the Soc.ety, wh.eh now for the flrst 

 tin,e in the course of the 52 years it has existed, acqu.res a legal standpom .] 



Mr BiUups exhibited an example of Inoste,,«na Bo.cu, Junne, a cunou» 1. le 

 Proc rypid,rspeciallyremarUahleforhavi„gahornproiectingfromthebaseoft 



abdomen over the thorax and head. He also exhibited the egg-case of a Mant d on 



: toZco-leaf ; and four species of Cr^is im.ntaia, i,nHaJ«,,^i«, and ..gUcU^ 



from the burrows of Odynerus spinipes. . , _ .^ 



Dr Capron exhibited Fkyiodietns ruflpU-tus, a species of I.,„e.«..n.l. new to 



^*tr Winston (present as a visitor) exhibited a variety of A.ctia eaja. 



Mr Horner exh.b.ted several rare species of British Coleoptera. n,chuh g 



-Z:tll^:::^::^::' O..... ...... mustratlng t. manner in 



nrDl::n::r:r:3i::rF.of. H. M.,ne.Kdwards, one of the 

 Honorary Me,nbers of the Society^ __ ^^^^^^^^.^^ ^^ ^,.„. 



. ..;: r:""-- aassiecat^^^^ Of the .ustral.an P.-... 

 and Pterophorida," by E. Meyrick. ^ 



©bituarjr. 



,.„r. 3«..«o.r.. was born, of English ^^^^^X^^^^" 

 at Bruges, then under French rule, rom -^»- ' ; '^^"^ „, ;„ 1823. and 

 1814, where he studied medicine, attended -'";'°;\'^:;^ ■;,„„,,„, ,b,„doned 

 for a short time practised as a physician m that citj. ^^ ^^^^ 



his profession, and devoted himself to the '^^'^y^-^^L^^ his friend 

 of the lower forms of animal life. In the year 182«, » J^J ^^^^.,j^_ ^^ 



and fellow-labourer, Victor Audouin, then the assistant of Lamarc 



