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around the base of each wounded tree lay heaps of defunct wasps. They appeared to 
sip on till they became powerless, and then to fall and die.” 
Mr. F. Smith remarked that he had not previously noticed the diseases amongst 
wasps to which Mr. Stone alluded, but during the past autumn, at Bournemouth, he 
had found the insects dying and the colonies breaking up in the manner described by 
Mr. Stone; in August he had found a nest of Vespa rufa all dripping with moisture, 
and on examination it proved to be full of the larve of a Silpha, which had doubtless 
been attracted by the dead and rotten larve of the wasp. He believed also that 
Mr. Stone's observation of Acari infesting wasps’ nests was new. 
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ANNUAL MEETING, 
January 23, 1865. 
F. P. Pascog, Esq., President, in the chair. 
An Abstract of the Treasurer's Accounts for 1864 was read by Mr. Wilkinson, one 
of the Auditors, showing a balance in favour of the Society of £71 11s. 11d. 
The Annual Report of the Council was read by the Secretary. 
The President nominated Messrs. Walker and Wilkinson to act as scrutineers of 
the ballots. 
The following gentlemen were elected to form the Council for 1865 (namely), the 
Rev. Hamlet Clark, Messrs. Dunning, M‘Lachlan, Moore, Pascoe, W. W. Saunders, 
Edwin Shepherd, A. F. Sheppard, Edward Sheppard, F. Smith, Stainton, 8S. Stevens 
and J. J. Weir. 
The following gentlemen were elected to the folluwing offices respectively 
(namely), Mr. Pascoe, President; Mr. S. Stevens, Treasurer; Messrs. Edwin Shepherd 
and Dunning, Secretaries; and Mr. Janson, Librarian. 
The President read an Address, at the conclusion of which a vote of thanks to 
Mr. Pascoe for his services as President and his conduct in the chair was carried by 
acclamation, and a request was preferred that the Address then delivered might be 
published in the ‘ Journal of Proceedings.’ Mr, Pascoe returned thanks, and acceded 
to the request. 
A vote of thanks to the other Officers and Members of the Council for 1864 was 
duly proposed, seconded and carried; and was acknowledged by Mr. S. Stevens. 
A vote of thanks to Mr. Dunning, for the assistance given by him towards the 
publication of the ‘Transactions,’ was proposed by Mr, Wilson Saunders, seconded 
by the Rev. H. Clark, and carried. In replying thereto, Mr. Dunning took occasion 
to remark that a considerable diminution of the cost of publication might be effected 
if authors would take the trouble, in the first place, to write their papers more legibly, 
and, in the second place, to revise the MS. instead of the proof-sheets; the sum 
charged for “corrections” during the past year was sufficient to have paid for the 
printing of another Part of the ‘ Transactions.” He would also suggest that authors 
should write their papers before they read them; it was becoming far too frequent for 
Members to profess to read papers of which fragmentary portions only were actually 
