March 7, 1864, 
Frepertick Smira, Esq., Member of the Council, in the chair. 
Special Meeting—A Special Meeting was held, pursuant to notice, for the purpose 
of electing a President in the place of Mr. Stainton, who declined to accept the 
office. 
The Chairman appointed Messrs. Haward and Sharp to be Scrutineers. A ballot 
was then held, and Francis P. Pascoe, Esy., F.L.S., &c., was declared to be duly 
elected President for 1864. 
Ordinary Meeting.—The following donations were announced, and thanks voted to 
the donors :— 
Donations to the Library. 
‘Académie Royale des Sciences, des Lettres et des Beaux-Arts de Belgique: 
- Bulletins des Séances de la Classe des Sciences, Année 1862;’ ‘ Annuaire 1863 ;’ 
presented by the Academy. ‘Proceedings of the Royal Society, No. 60; by the 
Society. ‘ Proceedings of the Natural History Society of Dublin, Vol. iv. Part 1; by 
the Society. ‘ Proceedings of the Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool during 
the fifty-second Session, 1862-63,’ No. xvii.; by the Society. ‘Sitzungsberichte der 
Konig]. bayer. Akademie der Wissenschafien zu Minchen, 1863, II. Heft 2 & 3; by 
the Academy. ‘Notes on the Indian Bombycide, by Capt. Thomas Hutton; by the 
Author. ‘The Classification of Animals, based on the Principle of Cephalization ; 
Part 2, On Fossil Insects from the Carboniferous Formation in Llfhois ;’ by James D. 
Dana; by the Author. ‘Chilonidarum et Crambidarum Genera et Species,’ Scripsit 
P. C. Zeller; by the Author. ‘The Intellectual Observer,’ Nos. 25 and 26; by the 
Publishers. ‘The Zovlogist’ for March; by the Editor. ‘The Transactions of the 
Linnean Society of London,’ Vol. xxiv. Part 2; by the Society. ‘The Journal of the 
Society of Arts’ for February; by the Society. ‘The Atheneum’ for February; by 
the Editor. ‘The Reader’ for February ; by the Editor, ‘ Verhandlungen des Natur- 
forschenden Vereines in Brinn, Band I. 1862; by the Society. ‘Wiener Ento- 
mologische Monatschrift, Vol. vii. Nos. 1—12; by M. Lederer. 
The following additions by purchase were also announced :—‘ Fauna Austriaca: 
Die Fliegen (Diptera)? von J. Rudolph Schiner. ‘Berichte wher die Wissen- 
schafilichen Leistungen im Gebiete der Entomologie, von Dr. A. Gerstaecker, 1853 
—1861; Berlin, 1855—1863. 
Election of Member. 
R. W. Fereday, Esq., of Oakley Station, Christ Church, Canterbury, New Zealand, 
was ballotted for and elected a Corresponding Member. 
Exhibitions, &c. 
Mr. Waterhouse exhibited two species of Aleochara hitherto unrecorded as 
British :— 
1. A. procera, Kraatz, Ins. Deutschl. p. 97 = Ocalea procera, Erichs. Gen. et Sp. 
Staph. p.61. Found at Reigate by Mr. Linnell. 
2. A. fumata, Erichs. lib. cit. p. 166, Kraatz, lib, cit. p. 93. Found in Scotland 
by Mr. Morris Young and by Mr. Waterhouse himself. 
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