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then only when the burrow was just commenced. Of Scolytus destructor, I 

 have found a pair in a buirow on only one occasion, and am inclined to doubt 

 whether the male often enters the burrow at all. 



This paper was illustrated very admirably by specimens of the creatures 

 themselves, and their borings. The Beetles alive and at work could be readily 

 seen by cutting into the bark ; and they could also be examined with still gi-eater 

 ease, alive in bottles, and when dead, as they were carefully arranged in an accom- 

 panying case. It created great interest, and drew forth a very high compliment 

 from J. W. Salter, Esq., on the great acumen which it showed, and the perse- 

 vering and painstaking care with which the results given had been observed. 

 He considered it a happy provision of nature, that wherever a close observer 

 was found there the objects that attracted his especial interest flocked around 

 him. If he were a botanist, rare plants would turn uj) in the most unexpected 

 way, and we had the opportunity of seeing how beetles flocked round Dr. 

 Chapman at Abergavenny. He could not help congratulating the club on 

 having so careful an observer in its ranks (great applause). 



Other objects of Interest were also exhibited by the President, but our 

 space is exhausted, and in concluding the report of this very successful meeting, 

 we are glad to be able to console ourselves with the President's remark that 

 '•' they would turn up again another day." 



