JOURNAL OP PROCEEDINGS. 
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Mr. Yarrell, on behalf of the auditors of the treasurer's ac- 
counts, read an abstract thereof, and made a verbal commu- 
nication concerning the prosperous state of the affairs of the 
Society. 
J. F. Stephens, Esq., the President, then read an address upon 
the state of the Society, its views, progress, and prospects. 
It was resolved that a vote of thanks should be given to the 
President for his address, and that he should be requested to 
allow the same to be printed for distribution amongst the mem- 
bers. 
It was announced that two prize essays upon Athalia centifoliae 
had been received, and that they had been submitted to a com- 
mittee to examine and report on their respective merits. 
February 5th, 1838. 
J. F. Stephens, Esq., President, in the Chair. 
Donations. 
The Coleopterist’s Manual. Part I. By the Rev. F. W. Hope. 
Catalogue of the Hemipterous Insects contained in the Col- 
lection of the Rev. F. W. Hope. Both presented by the Rev. 
F. W. Hope. 
Genera et Species Curculionidum. Tom. IV. Pars II. By 
C. J. Schonherr, For. Hon. M. E. S. 
The Athenaeum for January. By the Editor. 
The Magazine of Natural History for February. By the 
Editor. 
No. 22 of the Entomological Magazine. By E. Newman, Esq. 
Sixty-one Species of minute British Hymenoptera. By F. 
Walker Esq. 
William Frederick Evans, Esq., of the Admiralty, and of Elm 
Place, Brompton, was elected an Ordinary M. E. S. ; and 
M. Louis Agassiz, of Neufchatel, an Ordinary Foreign M.E.S. 
The President nominated the following gentlemen to act as 
Vice-Presidents during the ensuing year : 
The Rev. F. W. Hope. W. E. Shuckard, Esq. 
J. G. Children, Esq. C. Darwin, Esq. 
