3 June, 1872. 

 Prof. Westwood, M.A., F.L.S., President, in the chair. 



Donations to the Library. 



The following donations were announced, and thanks voted to the donors : — 

 ' Iconographie et Description des Chenilles et Lepidopteres ' inedits par M. P. 

 Milliere, tome i., ii., iii., livr. 24 — 27 ; ' Die Schmetterlinge Deutschlands 

 und der Schweiz systematisch bearbeitet von H. v. Heinemann, erste 

 Abth., Gross-schmetterlinge ; Zweite Abth., Kleinschmetterlinge,' tome i., ii., 

 Heft i. ; ' Notiser ur Sallskapets pro Fauna et Flora Fennica Forhand- 

 lingar,' t. ii., iii., ix., x., xi. ; ' An Ihustrated Natural History of British 

 Butterflies,' by Edward Newman, F.L.S., &c. ; 'The Cabinet List of the 

 Lepidoptera of Great Britain and Ireland,' by H. Guard Knaggs, M.D., &c., 

 the Tineina being elaborated by H. T. Stainton, Esq., F.R.S., &c. ; ' The 

 Lepidopterist's Guide,' by H. Guard Knaggs, M.D., &c. ; presented by 

 J. W. Dunning, Esq. ' Annales de la Societe Entomologique de France,' 

 5e Serie, tome i. ; by the Society. ' Berliner entomologische Zeitschrift,' 

 1871, Heft. 2, 13 ; 1872, Heft. 1 ; by the Society. ' The Canadian Ento- 

 mologist,' vol. iv., No. 4 ; by the Editor. ' L'Abeille,' 1872, livr. & 7 ; by 

 the Editor. ' Fourth Annual Report on the Noxious, Beneficial and other 

 Insects of the State of Missouri, made to the State Board of Agriculture, 

 pursuant to an appropriation for this purpose from the Legislature of the 

 State,' by Charles V. Riley, State Entomologist ; by the Author. ' Pro- 

 ceedings of the Scientific Meetings of the Zoological Society of London,' 

 1871, parts ii. & iii.; by the Society. 'Proceedings of the Royal Society,' 

 No. 134 ; by the Society. ' BuUettino della Societa Entomologica Itahana,' 

 iv., trim i. ; by the Society. ' Report of the Entomological Society of the 

 Province of Ontario, for the year 1871 ;' by the Society. ' The Zoologist' 

 for June; 'Newman's Entomologist' for June; by the Editor. 'The 

 Entomologist's Monthly Magazine ' for June; by the Editors. 'A Discussion 

 of the Law of Priority in Entomological Nomenclature ; with Strictures on 

 its Modern Application ; and a Proposal for the rejection of all disused 

 Names,' by W. Arnold Lewis, F.L.S., M. Entom. Soc. Lend., Barrister-at- 

 Law; by the Author. 'Notes on some Arachnida collected by Cuthbert 

 ColUngwood, Esq., M.D., during Rambles in the China Sea, &c. ; ' Descrip- 

 tions of some British Spiders new to Science ; with a notice of others, of 

 which some are now for the first time recorded as British Species ; ' by the 

 Author, the Rev. 0. P.-Cambridge. ' Contributions pour servir a I'liistoire- 

 naturelle des Ephemerines,' two pamphlets ; by the Author, M. le Dr. Emile 

 Joly. 



