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The Secretary read a communication from the Rev. Dr. 

 Walker, announcing his intention of making an expedition to 

 Iceland this year, from the 23rd June to the 29th July, and 

 asking that any entomologists who might wish to accompany 

 him would send him their names. 



Mr. Distant proposed that the Society should pass a reso- 

 lution expressing regret at the death of the Rev. J. G. Wood. 



Paper read. 

 Mr. Gervase F. Mathew, R.N., communicated a paper 

 entitled "Descriptions and Life-Histories of new spec'es of 

 Rhopalocera from the Western Pacific." 



April 3, 1889. 



F. Du Cane Godman, Esq., M.A., F.R.S., Vice-President, 

 in the chair. 



Donations to the Library were announced, and thanks voted 

 to the respective donors. 



Election of Fellows. 

 Mr. A Cant, of 93, Robert Street, Regent's Park, N.W. ; 

 Mr. C. Cave, of 13, Lowndes Square, S.W. ; Mr. N. F. Dobree, 

 of The New Walk, Beverley ; Mr. J. Harrison, of Gawber Road, 

 Barnsley; Mr. S. L. Mosley, of Beaumont Park, Huddersfield ; 

 and Mr. B. G. Nevinson, M.A., F.Z.S., of 6, Tite Street, 

 Chelsea, S.W., were elected Fellows. 



Exhibitions, dr. 



Mr. Osbert Salvin exhibited specimens of Ornithoptera 

 trojana, Staud., and O. j)late7d, Staud., received from Dr. 

 Staudinger, and obtained in Palawan, an island between 

 Borneo and the Philippines. He remarked that Ornithoptera 

 tnij/ina was allied to O. brookiana, Wall. 



Mr. R. M'Lachlan exhibited, and made remarks on, seven 

 examples of ^Eschna horcalis, Zett., a little-known species of 

 European Dragonflies. He said that some of the specimens 



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