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the Haliday correspondence, now presented to the Society by 

 Dr. E. Percival Wright, of Trinity College, Dublin, to wliom 

 a unanimous vote of thanks was given. 



Nomination of Auditors, Officers, and Council for 1907. 



Commander J. J. Walker, one of the Secretaries, again 

 read the list of Fellows nominated to act as Officers, and as 

 other Members of the Council for 1907. 



The President announced that the following Fellows had 

 been nominated as Auditors : — Mr. W. J. Kaye, Mr. A. J. 

 Chitty, Mr. L. B. Prout, Mr. R. Adkin, Dr. T. A. 

 Chapman and Mr. R. Wylie Lloyd. 



Election of Fellows. 

 Mr, H. C. Pratt, Government Entomologist, Federated 

 Malay States, Kuala Lumpur ; Capt. H, J. Walton, M.B., 

 F,R.C.S., Indian Medical Service ; Mr. Arthur Ernest Gibbs, 

 F.L.S., Kitchener's Meads, St. Albans ; Capt. James Bruce 

 Gregorie-Tulloch, King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry, 

 Strensall Camp, York ; Mr. John Ashburner Nix, Tilgate, 

 Sussex; Mr. Herbert W. Southcombb, J. P., 16 Stanford 

 Avenue, Brighton, and Mr. Roland E. Turner, 21 Emperor's- 

 Gate, S.W., were elected Fellows of the Society. 



Exhibitions. 



Mr. A. W. Bacot exhibited a specimen of Catocala nupta, 

 taken at rest at Hackney, November 9th, 1906, remarkable 

 for having two well-developed tarsi on the left fore-leg. Also 

 three $ specimens of Lasiocampa quercus, L., bred from 

 larvae from Cornwall in 1906. One of these larvae had been 

 submitted to a pressure of from 27 to 30 atmospheres (405 

 to 450 lbs. per square inch) on two occasions. 



Dr. M, Greenwood commenting on the effects of rapid 

 decompression on larvae, said that the lesions produced in 

 Vertebrata by sudden decompression were known to be due to 

 the liberation of nitrogen bubbles from the blood and tissue 

 fluids. Accordingly decompression should be innocuous in 

 animals, such as lepidopterous larvae, in which the respired 

 gases are conveyed directly to the cells without the interven- 

 tion of a circulating medium. 



