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So far as shown by the minute-book no mention was made 

 of the Club's collection or other property at any meeting be- 

 tween that last referred to and June 15th, 1848, when Mr. 

 Doubleday, as Curator, was authorised to supply a member 

 with ten mahogany boxes belonging to the Club, at the sum of 

 seven shillings apiece. 



November 16th, 1848. — It was announced that the insects 

 promised by the British Museum authorities had been received, 

 and were then deposited in the cabinets of the Club. 



On the death of Mr. Edward Doubleday in 1849 Mr. Walker 

 was appointed Curator, and the Club's effects were removed to 

 Bedford Square. On January 17th, 1850, the Curator reported 

 that the property of the Club then under his charge consisted of 

 two forty-drawer mahogany cabinets, and one mahogany cabinet 

 of twenty drawers, "but that from the latter one drawer had 

 been removed and was missing ; also a number of insects in a 

 deal mahogany cabinet belonging to Mr. Newman ; but that no 

 books or boxes of insects had been delivered " ; and on May 16th 

 of the same year he submitted the following statement : — "I have 

 nearly finished the arrangement of the Coleoptera, and have 

 placed in the cabinets the Orthoptera, Neuroptera, Hymenoptera, 

 Hemiptera, and that portion of the Diptera which were not pre- 

 viously arranged. I have commenced labelling the Lepidoptera 

 which require partial rearrangement. I have transferred some 

 duplicates and some exotic species from the cabinets to my own 

 boxes, and will give them up as soon as required. In conclusion, 

 I will remark that my correspondence with entomologists will 

 enable me to add to the collection, and would suggest the pur- 

 chase of 'Curtis's Guide' as a means of ascertaining the number 

 of the species and probably of much increasing them." 



According to the report read at a meeting on May 17th, 1851, 

 it would seem that the arrangement of the Diptera had been 

 proceeded with, and that "very many species" had been added 

 to the collection. It was also stated that a copy of ' Curtis's 

 Guide ' had been procured, and that most of the species in the 

 possession of the Club had been marked off in it. In October, 

 1852, Mr. Walker intimated to the Club that as he was removing 

 to Chepstow he was unable to keep the cabinets in Bedford 

 Square, and the matter was then discussed, and its further 

 consideration deferred to the next meeting (November 20th), 

 when it was stated " that Mr. Walker had consented to withdraw 

 his resignation of the Curatorship, and that arrangements were 

 in progress for the location of the cabinets and for making them 

 useful to entomologists generally; the details would be laid 

 before the next meeting." 



As mentioned in the previous account of the Club (Entom. 

 xxv. p. 6), the collections passed into the custody of Mr. Edward 

 Newman at the end of 1852, and remained under his charge 



