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JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS. 
March 6th, 1837. 
The Rev. F. W. Hope, F.R.S., Vice-President, in the Chair. 
Donations. 
Transactions of the Linnaean Society of London. Vol. XII. 
Presented by that Society. 
No. 3 of the New Series of the Magazine of Natural History. 
By the Editor. 
The Athenaeum, for February. By the Editor. 
J. Mayne, Esq. F.R.S., and 
The Rev. J. Image, M. A., 
were elected Ordinary Members of the Society. 
Memoirs, Exhibitions, &c. 
“ On an early Remedy adopted for the Prevention and Destruc- 
tion of Vermin.” Communicated by L. H. Petit, Esq. F.R.S., 
M.E.S., &c. 
The following is a copy of the old Receipt alluded to by Mr. 
Petit to destroy Vermin : 
“ Whitewash the walls with whitewash, made or mixed with 
lime, mixing with about a bucket of the whitewash a decoction of 
Staves-acre* [?. e. the Root of the Larkspur]. A quarter of a 
pound thereof to be boiled in water for that purpose. 
* With respect to this name, though somewhat barbarized, it has descended to 
us from the Greek, — being the Irafi; aygta of Dioscorides, Book iv., c. 156, edit, 
of 1598; — the Ao-t a<pi<; of Galen, vol. xiii. Paris edit, of 1679; — the Astaphis 
agria sive staphis of Pliny, Nat. Hist. Book xxiii. c. 13, Hardwin’s edit. ; — styled 
Estaphisagrie ou llerbe aux Poulx, in old French; — and Staves-acre orLousewort, 
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