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enhall Market, sent down, and turned out. The 
first day after their journey they would not feed, but 
on the second they went to business in good earnest, 
and rapidly cleared the fields of the enemy, so that 
in a day or two there was scarcely one to be found. 
18. — Six acres of turnips on a large farm near me being in 
progress of destruction, two men were employed to 
sweep them with an inch rope, and about thirty feet 
long. It took them an hour at each operation, and 
was repeated daily for four times with great suc- 
cess. Vast numbers of the larva w r ere found dead 
under the turnips. In the county of Durham, and 
other parts of England, these insects have been very 
injurious ; and the several means of getting rid of 
them by ducks, sweeping, and employing children to 
pick them, have been each successful where timely 
applied, and properly persevered in.” 
“ Monograph upon the genus Macroccphalus.” By J. O. West- 
wood, F.L.S. 
“ Observations upon the Bots of Horses.” By W. Sells, Esq. 
In reference to which memoir Mr. Westwood observed, that it 
appeared to him to be contrary to all analogy to suppose (as Mr. 
Clark had done) that the larvae of (Estrus cqui fed on vegetable 
matter in the interior of the stomach of the horse, whilst it was 
so well known that the larvae of other species of the genus, as the 
sheep and ox bots, fed upon animal secretions. 
November Gth, 1837. 
J. F. Stephens, Esq. President, in the Chair. 
Donations. 
Fauna Boreali-Americana, part iv. The insects by the Rev. 
W. Kirby, M.A., Hon. Pres. Ent. Soc. 
No. 11 of the Magazine of Natural Flistory, New Series. By 
the Editor. 
The Athenaeum, for October. By the Editor. 
Catalogue of the Library of the United Service Museum. By 
that Establishment. 
Comolli; De Coleopteris Novis Provinciae Novo-Comi. Pre- 
sented by Messrs. Villa, of Milan. 
