6 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 
1852, however, we find Mr. Doubleday, Mr. Stevens, and Mr. 
Wallcott, among others, doing much to enrich the collections. 
On Dec. 22nd, 1855, it was announced that a large number of 
British insects had been presented to the Club since May, and at 
the April meeting, 1856, Mr. KE. Newman, as Curator, reported 
the collection in a good state of preservation, and that numerous 
additions had been made thereto both by captures and donations. 
The Curator’s report, at the end of the year 1856, shows that 
there were large donations of insects, and that all duplicates sent 
in for distribution were offered unconditionally to be selected 
from by every visitor to the collection. One gentleman, Mr. 
Hdleston, had sent over 500 specimens for distribution in this 
way. At almost every meeting from 1856 to 1859 donations 
were announced. Very few presents appear on the minutes after 
1868, but in 1876 we find that Mr. W. Machin gave the Club a 
box of Lepidoptera. 
Although the Club has long borne a name, it does not appear 
ever to have had a local habitation. Its collection of insects and 
its library are deposited in the house of one or other of its 
members who happens to hold the office of Curator. At a meeting 
of the Club, held on the 16th October, 1852, at Mr. Bowerbank’s, 
a letter from Mr. Walker, the then Curator, was read, in which 
he tendered his resignation of the curatorship, as he was about 
to remove from London, and requesting that the collection of 
the Club be removed from his residence in Bedford Square. 
This announcement gave rise to considerable discussion, and 
there seems to have been some little difficulty in fixing on a new 
location for the cabinets, &e. However, the matter was referred 
to Mr. Bowerbank and Mr. Newman to consider and report on at 
a future meeting, and on the 18th of December, 1852, it was 
decided that the entomological property of the Club be entrusted 
to Mr. Newman, who had, to oblige Mr. Walker, already removed 
the cabinets to his own residence. It was further resolved that 
the said collection should be open to entomologists generally one 
evening in each week, as had formerly been the custom when 
under the charge of Mr. Stephens and Mr. Curtis respectively. 
At this meeting Messrs. 8. Stevens, T. Ingall, and E. Newman 
were appointed a committee to examine and report on the 
collections of the Club, and on the 15th of January, 1853, the 
following report was presented at a meeting held at Mr. Marshall’s 
residence in the Bank of England :— 
“Your Committee have carefully examined the collection of 
British insects belonging to the Entomological Club, and find 
it to be contained in three mahogany cabinets, one of which has 
19 drawers, and a vacancy for a 20th, and the others 40 drawers 
each, making a total of 99 drawers. The glass of one drawer is 
broken, and we recommend its being mended forthwith. The 
insects generally are free from dust, mould, or mites. 
