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Ordinary General Meeting. — The minutes of the last meeting having been read 

 and confirmed, 



Mr. Douglas feared he was rather out of order in rising at that time to address the 

 meeting ; but the cause of his doing so was not an ordinary one. On the occasion of 

 the Society's excursion to Keigate, on the 21st ult., the members had been most hos- 

 pitably entertained by the President at the ' Swan' hotel. He much regretted that 

 business engagements had prevented him from being present ; but had heard from 

 more fortunate persons that they never spent a more pleasant day. He thought, 

 therefore, the present was a fitting opportunity for proposing a vote of thanks to the 

 President for his liberality on this and all other occasions. 



Dr. Gray, as one of those present on the occasion alluded to, most cordially 

 seconded this motion, which was submitted to the meeting by Mr. Deuglas, and car- 

 ried by acclamation. 



Donations. 



The following donations were announced, and thanks ordered to be given to the 

 donors: — 'Die im Bernstein befindlichen organischen Reste der Vorwelt gesammelt 

 in Verbindung mit Mehreren bearbeitet und herausgegeben von Dr. Georg Carl Be- 

 reudt, Erster Band, Erste & Zvveite Abtheilungen, Zweiter Band, Erste Abtheilung ;' 

 presented by Madame Berendt. ' Abhandlungen der Mathemat. Physikalischen 

 Classe der Koeniglich Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften,' Vol. xvii. Part 3 ; 

 ' Dr. F. B. W. von Hermann, Ueber die Gliederung der Bevolkerung des Konigreichs 

 Bayern ;' ' Denkrede auf die Akademiker Dr. Thaddaus Siber und Dr. Geoi'g Simon 

 Ohm ;' ' Almanach der Koniglich Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften fur das 

 Jahr, 1855;' presented by the Royal Bavarian Academy of Sciences. Hewitson's 

 ' Exotic Butterflies,' Part 19 ; by W. W. Saunders, Esq. ' Journal of the Proceedings 

 of the Linnean Society,' No. 2 ; by the Society. ' Jubile Semi-Seculaire de la Societe 

 Imperiale des Naturalistes de Moscou le 28 Decembre, 1855 ;' by the Society. ' Ge- 

 nera des Coleopteres,' Tome iii.; by the Author, M. Th. Lacordaire. 'Revue et Ma- 

 gasin de Zoologie,' 1856, No. 5 ; by the Editor, Monsieur F. E. Gueriii-Meneville. 

 The 'Zoologist' for July ; by the Editor. The 'Journal of the Society of Arts' for 

 June; by the Society. The ' Literary Gazette' for June; by the Editor. The 

 'AlhcntEum' for June ; by the Editor. ' A Catalogue of British IchneuraonidiE in 

 the Collection of the British Museum,' by Thomas Desvignes; by the Author. 'A 

 Manual of British Butterflies and Moths,' No. 5 ; by the Author, H. T. Stainton, 

 Esq. The 'Entomologist's Weekly Intelligencer,' Nos. 10 — 14; by the Editor. 

 ' Entoraologische Zeitung,' 1856, Nos. 5 and 6; by the Entomological Society of Stet- 

 tin. An engraving on steel of LithocoUetis tenella; by Edward Robinson, Esq. 



Mr. Westwood read a translation of Madame Bercndt's letter accompanying the 

 donation of her late husband's 'Organischen Reste in Bernstein,' which stated that on 

 the completion of the work it is her intention to dispose of the cabinet left by Dr. 

 Berendt at his decease, in which the greater part of the original specimens figured 

 and described in the work are contained. He observed that such a collection was 

 extremely interesting, from the fiict that while in very few instances fossil insects 

 could be decyphered in all their parts so as satisfactorily to determine their structure 

 and relations, these amber insects, being enclosed in a transparent substance, are quite 



