90 Proceedings. 



General Mectini:^, January 22ncl, 1889. 



Professor OsBORNE Reynolds, M.A., LL.D., F.R.S., 

 President, in the Chair. 



Dr. George Bowman, of Old Trafford, was elected an 

 ordinary member. 



Ordinary Meetin_c,^ January 22nd, 1889. 



Professor OsBORNE REYNOLDS, M.A., LL.D., F.R.S., 

 President, in the Chair. 



Mr. W. H. Johnson called attention to the fact that 

 commercial copper is now apparently being produced of 

 greater purity than laboratory " pure " copper, and a dis- 

 cussion ensued. 



Mr. P. Cameron read a paper entitled "■ Hynienoptera 

 Orientalis, or contributions to a knowledge of the hymen- 

 opterous fauna of the Oriental zoological region." 



During the discussion which followed, Mr. CHARLES 

 Bailey commented on the fact that the number of 

 entomologists has steadily decreased all over the world, 

 there being now very few left ; a circumstance, Mr. Bailey 

 pointed out, which is the more surprising as no department 

 of natural history, not even botany, offers so wide a field 

 of research and so rich a reward in the discovery of new 

 facts. 



