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the chair, when the PResIDENT (Rev. L. Blomefield) read a paper 
on the “ Capture of a Rare Coleopterous Insect near Bath.” 
Before commencing a description of this insect he reminded the 
members present that it was now twenty-eight years since he 
instituted the Club for the investigation of the Natural History, 
Geology, and Antiquities of the neighbourhood, and that it was 
with regret that he observed that natural history was not so 
actively taken up as he could wish. It was with a view to stirring 
up the members in this department that he had prepared these 
notes on the capture of this rare beetle. Taken near Bath in 
September last, it was one of the Cerambycidee living upon 
timber, found all over Europe, but rare everywhere except in 
Sweden, where it occurred in old boats and trees. 
Mr. SKRINE returned to Mr. Blomefield the thanks of the Club 
for his very remarkable lecture, and stated that though the 
Antiquities of the neighbourhood might be exhausted, not so the 
Natural History, of which more wonderful things can be told than 
of any other things. As to the object of the antenne, he sug- 
gested they might have been used for tapping the bark of the 
trees or for converse. Bees and other insects have their method 
of converse one with the other—were these antenne means of 
speech 1 
Mr. Williams’s ‘‘ Remarks on and exhibition of fossils, &c., illus- 
trating the bed of the sea,” were postponed to a future meeting, as 
the limited time at his disposal would not have been sufficient to 
admit of justice being done to his subject. 
The second afternoon meeting was held at the Literary and 
Scientific Institution on Wednesday, January 23rd, but the 
attendance of members was anything but complimentary to the 
two gentlemen who had come from some distance to read their 
papers—the Rey. Preb. Scarth from Wrington, and Mr. Emanuel 
Green from London. In the absence of Mr. Skrine through 
illness the chair was taken by the Rev. Canon Ellacombe, of 
Bitton, and there were present Colonel Cockell, Dr. Mantell, Dr. 
