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April 3, 1865. 
F. P. Pascoe, Esq., President, in the chair. 
Donations to the Library. 
The following donations were announced, and thanks voted to the donors :—‘ The 
Journal of the Royal Agricultural Society of England,’ 2nd series, Vol. i.; presented 
by the Society. ‘The Transactions of the Linnean Society of London, Vol. xxiv. 
Part 3; by the Society. ‘The Journal of Entomology, No. 12; by the Proprietors. 
Hewitson’s ‘ Exotic Butterflies, Part 54; by W. W. Saunders, Esq. Doleschall, C. L., 
‘Bijdrage tot de Kennis der Dipterologische Fauna van Nederlandsch Indie,’ 
Parts 1—3; ‘ Bijdrage tot de Kennis der Arachniden van den Indischen Archipel ;’ 
‘Tweede Bijdrage tot de Kennis der Arachniden van den Indischen Archipel ;’ by 
A. R. Wallace, Esq. ‘The Entomologist’s Monthly Magazine’ for April; by the 
Editors. ‘The Zoologist’ for April; by the Editor. 
Election of Members. 
Captain Willoughby 8. Rooke, of the Scots Fusilier Guards, and of Bigswear, 
Gloucestershire; R.S. Scholfield, Esq., of the Junior Carlton Club; and Dr. Sichel, 
of Paris, were severally ballotted for, and elected Members. Mr. Stephen Barton, of 
Bristol, was ballotted for, and elected an Annual Subscriber. 
Exhibitions, &c. 
The President exhibited a new species of Bolboceras from South Australia, which 
was found burrowing in the hard road at Gawler, near Adelaide, a habit similar to 
that of the European B. gallicus. The Australian species was described by its captor, 
Mr. Odewahn, as “ making a noise like a Longicorn, by moving the small pulvilli 
beneath the hind coxa.’ 
The President read the following extract from the ‘Atheneum’ of the 18th of 
March, 1865 :— 
“ Bottesford Manor, Brigg, March 13, 1865. 
“Tn Saturday’s ‘ Atheneum’ (p. 352), it is recorded, that at the Meeting of the 
Entomological Society, held on March 6, ‘Mr. Bond exhibited specimens of a gall 
found on a willow tree near Cambridge; the attack of the insect . . . caused a prema- 
ture terminal development of leaves in whorls, so as to resemble a flower-head.’ Galls 
of this kind are of very frequent occurrence on willows in this neighbourhood, and, 
I believe, throughout the whole of Lincolnshire. They are so common here that 
I have always supposed that they must be familiarly known to naturalists. They first 
show themselves in the latter summer and early autumn, but are not easily discovered 
until the tree sheds its leaves. When that happens the gall-leaves become prominent 
objects. Their form is singularly like that of a small rose, and the likeness is increased 
by the colour, which, in December and January, is a light brown, very often nearly 
approaching red. As time goes on the brown becomes deeper, and when the green 
leaves shoot forth in spring the galls drop off. The likeness to a rose is often so com- 
plete that an uninstructed person might easily be led to the absurd conclusion that he 
had seen roses growing on willows. That this opinion was current at one time is 
proved by the following entry in the chronicle of John Capgrave, 1338: ‘In that same 
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