Dr Smith's Note of a Small Lizard, etc. 219 



tion into it in any way of merely a very small insect — a beetle, 

 but in this case the fearfully destructive Colorado Beetle, 

 Dorypliora decemlineata, which in countless multitudes has 

 been traversing the great continent, and laying waste the potato 

 crops of America. Our Government officials have promptly 

 taken up the matter, and a watch has been set at every port 

 to protect us, if possible, from this small but very formidable 

 invader, an enemy at once to our potato crops, and therefore 

 really to one of the great food supplies of the country. A 

 skilled naturalist and entomologist being at once sent to 

 investigate on the iirst rumour of the beetle's appearance, my 

 old friend our member and former president, Mr Andrew 

 Murray, was sent from London to Liverpool to examine and 

 report as to its supposed occurrence there. I regret much to 

 say Mr Murray has since died in London — a loss at once to 

 natural and economic science, as the first of his South Ken- 

 sington Museum Hand-books — " Economic Entomology and 

 Aptera" by Andrew Murray, E.L.S. — prepared by the order 

 of the Lords of the Committee of Council on Education, 

 amply testifies. Mr Andrew Murray also formed, I believe, 

 the valuable, interesting, and important collection of economic 

 entomology in relation to agriculture, preserved and exhibited 

 in the Bethnal Green Museum, London. 



Wednesday, 16th January 1878. — Professor Duns, D.D., President, in the 



Chair. 



The following gentleman was balloted for, and elected as Resident Member 

 of the Society : Archibald Gray, Esq., 13 Inverleith Row. 



The following donations to the Library were laid on the table, and thanks 

 voted to the donors : 



1. The Journal of the Linnean Society — Botany, Vol. XYL, 'No. 93. — 

 From the Society. 2. Transactions of the Manchester Geological Society, Vol. 

 XIV., Part 14. — From the Society. 3. Bollettino della Society Adriatica di 

 Scienze IS^aturali in Trieste, Vol. III., Nos. 1, 2. — From the Society. 4. 

 Die Naturgesetze und ihr. Zusammenhang mit den Prinzipien der abstrakten 

 Wissenschaften. Zwei Theile. v^on Dr Hermann Scheffler. — Presented by 

 the Author. 5. Boletin del Ministerio de Fomento de la Republica Mexi- 

 cana, for September and October 1877. — From the Ministry of the Interior, 

 Mexico. 6. Medical Examiner, Nos. 48-50, Vol. II.— From the Publishers. ' 



