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besides, a number of rare and curious birds, — the great black cockatoo, racquet-tailed 

 kingfisher, magnificent pigeons, &c., — and a fair addition to my insects and shells. 

 On ihe whole I am so much pleased with Arru that my plans are somewhat altered: 

 on returning to Macassar I shall probably not stay more than two or three months, 

 but get as soon as I can to Ternate, and then to the north coast of New Guinea, 

 where all the remaining species of Paradise birds are found ? I believe I am the only 

 Englishman who has ever shot and skinned (and ate) birds of Paradise, and the first 

 European who has done so alive, and at his own risk and expense ; and I deserve to 

 reap the reward, if any reward is ever to be reaped by the exploring collector. I 

 think there is good work for three jears in N.E. Celebes, Gilolo Ceram, north 

 coast of New Guinea, and intermediate islands, of all of which Ternate is near the 

 centre, and it is certainly one of the least-explored districts in the world, and one 

 which contains some of the finest birds and insects in the world. On the whole 

 I have had much better health here than at Macassar, but I am now, and have been 

 a whole month, confined to the house, owing to inflammation and sores on the legs, 

 produced by hosts of insect bites. Confinement has brought on an attack of fever, 

 which I am now getting over. My insect collecting has suffered dreadfully by this 

 loss of time. — A. W.'' 



Mr. Moore read a monograph of the genus Adolias, in which fifty -two species 

 were described, of which number thirty were new to Science. 



The President observed that the number of new and rare species exhibited during 

 the evening proved the unabated ardour of the entomologists of this country. 



November 2, 1857. 

 W. W. Saunders, Esq., President, in the chair. 



Donations. 



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

 donors : — ' The Natural History Review,' 1857, No. 1 ; presented by the Dublin 

 University Zoological Association. 'The Literary Gazette' for October; by the 

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

 Natural History of the Tineina,' Vol. ii., containing Lithocolletes, Parti.; 'Ele- 

 ments of Entomolgy,' No. 14 ; by H. T. Stainton, Esq. 



Election of a Subscriber. 



H. W. Brown, Esq., 1, Westbourne Street, Hyde Park Gardens, was elected a 

 Subscriber to the Society. 



Exhibitions. 



Dr. Gray exhibited some living examples of the case-bearing larvae of an Oiketi- 

 cus, found on a species of Ficus at Sydney, and brought to this country by J. W. 



