JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS. Ux 



Donations. 



Suggestions for a Society for Promoting the Improvement of Public 

 Taste in Architecture and Rural Scenery. By W. Spence, Esq., the 

 Author thereof. 



No. 74 of Illustrations of British Entomology. By J. F. Stephens, 

 Esq., the Author thereof. 



Lettre a M. Serville sur le Canopus obtectus. By M. Alex. Le- 

 feb\Te, Hon. For. M.E.S., the Author thereof. 



Report on the Recent Progress and Present State of Zoology. By 

 the Rev. Leonard Jenyns, M.A., F.L.S., &c., the Author thereof. 



Descriptions of new or imperfectly known Parasitic Crustacea. 

 By Dr. Hermann Burmeister, the Author thereof. 



Coleoptera Europaea Dupleta in CoUectione Villse. By M. A. 

 Villa, the Author thereof. 



No. 5 of a Manual of Entomology. By W. Shuckard, the Author 

 thereof. 



A specimen of Elenchus Templetonii, from the Mauritius. By 

 R. Templeton, Esq., R.A. 



The Rev. J. Fleming, D.D., F.R.S.E., &c., of Aberdeen, 



George Newport, Esq., of Chichester, M.D., 



The Rev. H. Plimley, M.A., 



Gr.^nt, Esq., M.D., Richmond, 



were elected Ordinary Members of the Society ; and 



M. Emilien De Wael, of Antwerp, 



Dr. Hermann Burmeister, of Berlin, 



Dr. God. Reich, of Berlin, 



Dr. F. Erichson, of Berlin, and 



M. Schuppell, of Berlin, 

 were elected Ordinary Foreign Members. 



The President having stated that Mr. Pickering had resigned the 

 office of Curator, a vote of thanks was passed to this gentleman for 

 his exertions during the period whilst he occupied such situation. 

 The sanction of this Meeting was subsequently given to an arrange- 

 ment whereby the duties of Curator would alternately be performed 

 by Messrs. W. W. Saunders, W. E. Shuckard, and J. O. Westwood. 



Exhibitions, Memoirs, &c. 



W. Christy, Jun., Esq., exhibited a branch of an oak tree, from 

 Cobham Park, bearing a considerable number of galls, which, instead 



