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March 6, 1860. 

 J. W. Douglas, Esq., President, in the chair. 



Donations. 



The following donations were announced, and thanks ordered to be presented to 

 the donors : — 'The Journal of the Royal Agricultural Society of England,' Vol. xx. 

 Part 2 ; presented by the Society. ' Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal,' No. 99 ; 

 by the Society. ' Journal of llie Proceedings of the Linnean Society,' Vol. iv. No. 16; 

 by the Society. 'The Zoologist,' for March ; by the Editor. 'Saggio di Ditterlogia 

 Messicana, di Luigi Bellardi, Professore di Storia Naturale,' Part 1; by the Author. 

 ' Meinoires de la Societe de Physique et d'Histoire Nalurelle de Geneve,' Tome xv. 

 Ire Paitie ; by the Society. 'The Journal of the Society of Arts' for February; by 

 the Society. ' The Literary Gazette' for February ; by the Editor. ' The Athenaeum ' 

 for February ; by the Editor. ' The Entomologists' Weekly Intelligencer,' Nos. 171 — 

 179, inclusive; by the Editor, H. T. Stainton, Esq. ' Stettiner Entomologische 

 Zeitnug,' 1860, Nos. 1 — 3 ; by the Entomological Society of Stettin. 



Election of Members. 



Dr. Schaura and Mons. Leon Dufour were elected Honorary Members, and Mons. 

 J. Bigot, Vice-President of the Entomological Society of France, of Rue de Luxem- 

 bourg, Paris, an ordinary Member of the Society. 



Exhibitions. 



Mr. Stevens exhibited a large box of Coleoptera sent from Batchian by 

 Mr. A. R. Wallace; it contained a vast number of new species, some beautiful 

 BuprestidiE, &c. 



Mr. Janson exhibited a box of Coleoptera he had just received from Mr. C. 

 Turner, collected by him during the last few weeks at Rannoch, Perthshire, 

 and remarked that no less than four of the species were not comprised in Mr. Mur- 

 ray's ' Catalogue of the Coleoptera of Scotland,' viz., Xyloterus domesticus, Linn., 

 Tomicus acuminatus, Gi/IL, Cis Alni, GylL, and BradycelUis placidus, Gijll. 



Mr. Dunning exhibited a singular pale Noclua, which had been pronounced by 

 Mr. H. Doubleday to be a variety of Mamestra anceps. 



Mr. Dunning also read a letter addressed to him by C. Maurice, Esq., respecting 

 the specimen of Sphinx Pinastri exhibited by Mr. Sealy at the last Meeting of the 

 Society, in which the writer asserted positively that the insect in question was caught 

 by him at Ronisey, as then stated by Mr. Sealy. 



The Secretary also read a letter addressed to Mr. Sealy by S. H. Maurice, Esq., 

 brother of the before-named gentleman, who had, as mentioned at the February Meeting, 

 taken some muths in Switzerland during the past summer: in this letter the writer 

 states that he feels certain the moth in question was not one of his Swiss captures, but 

 was caught by his brother at Romsey, after his return from Switzerland. 



