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lated several worms and beetles with it. There was also a specimen 

 of the Scolytus pygmceus, an insect which attacks the Oak, and which 

 has latterly proved so destructive that 80,000 trees in the Bois de 

 Vincennes have been cut down, in consequence of its attacks. Mr. 

 WestwooQ, in conclusion, made some remarks on the progress of 

 Entomology in France, which he stated to be in advance of this 

 country, there being more working cultivators there, and the collection 

 at the Jardin des Plantes being superior to that at the British Muse- 

 um. M. Audouin had just completed a course of fifty lectures on 

 Entomology. 



WARWICKSHIRE NATURAL HISTORY AND ARCHjEOLO- 

 GICAL SOCIETY. 



The council of this Society read their Annual Report to the mem- 

 bers on the 23rd of May, 1837, at their first anniversary meeting. 

 This Report is arranged under three general heads, preceded by some 

 necessary preliminary observations. It was considered by the coun- 

 cil to be highly important to make the quarterly meetings interesting 

 to the members at large ; and, during the past year, they have been 

 fortunate enough to obtain the assistance, on those occasions, of Pro- 

 fessor Buckland, of Dr. Lloyd, and of Mr. M. Bloxam, by each of 

 whom a very interesting address has been delivered to a large audi- 

 tory, with the eflFect of increasing the number of the friends of the 

 Society. At one of the quarterly meetings, Mr. Sharpe read a paper 

 on a curious archaeological subject ; but the council regret not having 

 yet been favoured with communications, so much desired by them 

 and so easily furnished by all observant naturalists, relating to the 

 different branches of Natural History. 



Geology and Mineralogy. — Considering that the Society's 

 first year has but just concluded, the collection in Geology and 

 Mineralogy has attained a greater extent than could have been anti- 

 cipated in so short a period ; and it is a subject on which the council 

 congratulates the Society, more especially as the far greater propor- 

 tion consists of contributions from the cabinets of members and 

 others interested in its welfare ; the sole purchase which has been 

 made being a series of mountain rocks, all of them illustrative of 

 some part of th,? Geology of the British Islands, collected by the 

 Rev. Dr. Rowley, 1; te Master of University College, Oxford. The 

 cost of this interesting and well-selected collection was only ten 

 pounds. 



Many persons, possessing private collections, are oftentimes pre- 

 vented from contributing to public museums from not being aware of 

 what things may be desired ; and others, not being in the habit of col- 

 lecting for themselves, and feeling but very little interest in any par- 

 ticular branch of Natural History, having nevertheless many oppor- 



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