JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS. 
XXI 
Magazine of Natural History. New Series. No. 12. By the 
Editor. 
The Athenaeum for December. By the Editor. 
The Entomological Magazine. No. 21. By the Editor. 
The Naturalist for November and December, 1837. By the 
Editor. 
Edward Charlesworth, Elsq., F.G.S., of Leicester Square; and 
T. W. Maltby Esq., of Turnham Green, 
were elected Ordinary Members of the Society. 
Memoirs, Exhibitions, &c. 
Mr. Hanson exhibited a large collection of North American 
insects collected by Messrs. Doubleday and Forster. 
Mr. Hope exhibited a portion of a splendid collection of insects 
collected by Colonel Whithill in the Concan and Ceylon. 
Mr. Raddon exhibited a quantity of Cayenne pepper, in which 
a number of specimens of Anobium paniceum had been reared. 
Likewise some portions of the external parts of insects found im- 
bedded in peat at the depth of fifty feet in digging the foundation 
of a bridge at Bristol. 
Mr. Shipster exhibited the nest of a trap-door spider from 
Southern Australia, in which the door, instead of being circular as 
in Ct. nidulans, was semicircular and attached by a transverse 
section on one side. 
Mr. Spence communicated an extract from a provincial paper, 
giving an account of an advantageous mode of getting rid of the 
wire-worm in its attacks on turnips by employing boys to collect 
the worms at the price of 2 d. or \ hd. per 100, by which means 
the number of 1S,U00 had been collected in one field, which at 
the former price would cost 1/. 2s. 0 d., a sum well expended by 
saving an acre of turnips worth from 5l. to 71. As many as fifty 
worms had been found in a single root. Mr. Hope also stated 
that he had found the larvae of one of the E/ateridce abundant in 
turnips, and also that the common earwig had during the past 
autumn abounded to an extraordinary degree in various parts of 
England. At Cheltenham Forjicula borealis had appeared in 
countless myriads, and by far the greatest number of specimens 
which he had examined were infested with Filarice, three or four 
being often found in one individual. 
Mr. Stephens also stated that he had found the earwig ex- 
tremely abundant at Camberwell, whilst Messrs. Ingpen and 
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