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inhabiting ants’ nests. And lastly mention must be made of Rev. R. L. King’s 
papers on Entomostraca, of Mr. Krefft’s on Australian Entozoa, and of Mr. Bradley’s 
on spiders, the commencement of a short series on this group afterwards continued 
for a time in the Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales; these 
though not entomological have at least the sanction of usage in finding a place in the 
journal of a Society nominally devoted to entomological studies. 
Further, the work of the little Society seems to have stimulated not only workers 
in other colonies, but workers in other departments of zoology, and in New South 
Wales publication. In 1867 the late Count Castelnau, then resident in Melbourne, 
communicated two lengthy and important papers entitled “Notes on Australian 
Coleoptera” to the Royal Society of Victoria. From 1862 and onwards date the first 
contributions to the Annals and Magazine of Natural History, to the Proceedings of 
the Zoological Society of London, or to the Ibis, of the late Gerard Krefft on Reptilia 
and Mammalia (1862), of E. P. Ramsay on Ornithology (1863), and of Dr. J. C. Cox 
on Conchology (1864); all of them, including Count Castelnau, members of the 
Entomological Society of New South Wales. In 1866 the Philosophical Society of 
New South Wales published the first and only volume of its Transactions, containing 
the papers, or a selection from them, read before the Society during the years 1862-65, 
among them being several biological papers by Messrs. Krefft and Ramsay. 
And as on the one hand by unavoidable circumstances the entomologists were 
reduced in numbers, and as on the other hand among the ordinary members of the 
Society there were several naturalists, not however entomologists, who, though for a 
time they collected and exhibited their specimens at the Meetings, were becoming 
actively interested in groups outside the scope of the Society’s operations, it 
became evident in course of time that for the zoological talent available in the 
colony a Society on a more comprehensive basis than a purely Entomological 
Society was what was wanted. The Entomological Society of New South Wales 
was therefore given up. And there has never been any reason to regret this course 
since the way was thereby opened for a successor less restricted in its aims and of a 
more enduring character. 
In connection with the Entomological Society of New South Wales, it only 
remains to be said that Sir William Macleay, ably seconded by the Rev. R. L. King, 
B.A., was the largest contributor of papers, that for some considerable time the 
meetings were held at his residence, that he gave important support, financial and 
otherwise, to an extent which cannot now be ascertained, and that his influence and 
efforts were mainly instrumental in enabling the Society to attain as much success as 
it did. 
