218 Address delivered at the sixth and last 
restoration of our native timber, when exposed to the ravages 
of a destructive insect. In foe present notice he has been 
equally successful in detecting the cause of disease, and sug- 
gesting the remedy for it, in a fruit that forms a consider able 
branch of commerce. It comes not within the province of 
your chairman, when reverting to the labours of past years, 
to allude to the promises of the future. But I cannot 
avoid anticipating a little on this occasion, by stating what, I 
know, will be heard with the greatest interest by my friends 
around me, that I have alre ady received, from our colleag ue 
at the Havana, the commencement of a series of entomolo- 
gical papers, intended as a sequel to the invaluable Hore 
Lntomolégice. 
It is one of the great merits of the friend of whom I have 
just spoken, that he has opened to others the path which he 
has himself so successfully trodden. Dr. Horsfield, following 
his footsteps, has not failed to imbibe a portion of his spir it. 
In his work on the Lepidopterous insects of Java, of which a 
second part has appeared within this year, our valued col- 
league has given us the opportunity of remarking a union of 
characters ‘seldom found in an individual, -~and which he 
shares in common, perhaps, only with ne individual just 
alluded to, — a comprehensiveness of views, spook by 
a minuteness and finished accuracy of detail. We are indebted, 
likewise, to Dr. Horsfield for a description, in the Zoological 
Journal, of some new species of Oriental Lepiddptera, which 
did not form part of the collection at the India House, and 
consequently did not come regularly into his greater work. 
Our colleague, Mr. Westw ‘ood, whom it is ‘the boast of this 
club to have enlisted into science, and to rank among its most 
able recruits, has, during the last year, exhibited to our 
meetings, and commented upon, several new and interesting 
Coleopter ous insects belonging to the families of Cicindélidee, 
Notoxidee, and Zampyridee. His observations will appear in 
the forthcoming number of the Zoological Journal. Dr. Heine- 
ken of Madeira has, during the same per iod, favoured us with 
many interesting observations on various Kamiloce animals, 
particularly on the habits of some species of the drachnida. 
Mr. Thomson, likewise, has continued his Zoological Illustra- 
tions, in which he has given descriptions of some of the lumi- 
nous animals among the Crustacea; and has, at the same 
time, added to the information previously communicated b 
him, respecting the metamorphosis of that group. And Dr. 
Johnston of Berwick, in his Contributions to the British Fauna, 
has also, with much ability, observed upon some Crustaceous 
species. 
