XXXVI 
JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS. 
Transactions of the Berwickshire Naturalists’ Club. By that Club. 
Additamenta Entomologica ad Faunam Rossicam. Auctore 
Franc. Faldermann ; and 
Bereicherung zur Kaferkunde des Russisches Reiches. By the 
same. Both presented by M. Faldermann. 
Sketch of the Comparative Anatomy of the Nervous System. 
By J. Anderson, Esq., M. E. S. Presented by the Author. 
Description of Dolichoscelis Haworthii. By the Rev. F. W. Flope, 
the Author thereof. 
Magazine of Natural History, New Series, Nos. 1 & 2. By the 
Editor. 
The Athenaeum for January, 1837. By the Editor. 
Description of the Genus Emb'ia. By J.O. Westwood. 
On the Modern Nomenclature of Natural History. By the same. 
Some Account of a Congregation of Moths found in the Interior 
of an Acacia Tree. By the same. 
Some Account of the Chigoe , translated from Bold and Kollar’s 
Work on the Obnoxious Insects of Brazil. By W. E. Shuckard, 
Esq. 
Description of a New Species of Eurynome. By Mr. Hailstone. 
All presented by J. O. Westwood. 
No. 85 of Illustrations of British Entomology. By J. F. Ste- 
phens, Esq., the Author thereof. 
J. Turner, Esq., of Manchester, whose Certificate had been duly 
suspended, was elected an Ordinary Member of the Society. 
The President nominated the four following gentlemen to act as 
Vice-Presidents during the ensuing year ; namely, 
The Rev. F. W. Hope. W. E. Shuckard, Esq. 
W. W. Saunders, Esq. Samuel Hanson, Esq. 
Exhibitions, Memoirs, &c. 
A Letter was read from Mr. John Bohn, of Henrietta Street, 
Covent Garden, accompanied by a Copy of the Historia tripartita , 
printed in 1472, and which had been rendered completely valueless 
in the course of a year, by the attacks of the book-worm ( Anobium 
striatum), specimens of the larvae and perfect states of which w r ere 
still to be seen alive in the worm-holes, and requesting information 
as to any probable remedy ; whereupon Mr. G. R. Waterhouse 
stated his opinion that a few drops of prussic acid dropped upon 
the leaves of a book, infested by these insects, at occasional dis- 
tances apart, would have the effect of destroying the insects, espe- 
