8978 Entomological Society. 
was carried by acclamation. The vote was accompanied by a request that the Address 
might be printed in the ‘ Journal of Proceedings.’ 
The President returned thanks; and a complimentary vote to the other Officers 
and Members of Council for 1863 was subsequently carried and duly acknowledged. 
February 1, 1864.— FrepErick Smiry, Esq., Member of the Council, in the 
chair. 
Donations to the Library. 
The following donations were announced, and thanks voted to the donors :—‘ Pro- 
ceedings of the Royal Society, No. 59; presented by the Society. ‘ Sitzungsberichte 
der Konigl. bayer. Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Miinchen, 1863, ii. Part 1; by 
the Academy. ‘ Tijdschrift voor Entomologie, Vol. vi. Parts 3—6; by the Entomo- 
logical Society of the Netherlands. ‘The Zoologist’ for February; by the Editor. 
‘The Journal of the Society of Arts’ for January ; by the Editor. ‘The Atheneum’ 
for January ; by the Editor. ‘The Reader’ for January ; by the Editor. 
The following addition, by purchase, was also announced : —‘ Genera des Co- 
léoptéres d’Europe,’ Livr. 117 a 120. 
Election of President. 
The Secretary gave notice that, in consequence of Mr. Stainton having declined to 
accept the Presidency, the Meeting to be held on the 7th of March next would be 
made Special, for the purpose of electing a President; and that the Council recom- 
mended Mr. Francis P. Pascoe for election to the vacant office. 
Exhibitions, §c. 
The Rev. Hamlet Clark exhibited a collection of Australian Phytophaga, com- 
posed partly of specimens from the cabinet of Mr. C. A. Wilson, of Adelaide, and 
partly of the proceeds of Mr. F. G. Waterhouse’s journey of exploration across the 
_ interior of Australia. 
Mr. S. Stevens exhibited specimens of butterflies of exotic hue, but of home ma- 
nufacture ; they were made of feathers, and intended for personal ornament. 
Prof. Westwood remarked that great destruction of specimens of the more beauti- 
ful species of butterflies had taken place in Paris; large prices (larger than Entomo- 
logists could afford) had been given for the finest and most brilliant examples, which 
were used for ladies’ head-dresses, &c., and of course destroyed in an evening. The 
feathery imitations were equally beautiful, more lasting, and would render unnecessary 
the wholesale destruction of the originals. 
The Secretary exhibited part of the head of a coffee-cask recently received from 
Ceylon by Mr. R. L. Thomson, of Alderney Road, Mile End; the wood was 
thoroughly riddled by larvz, apparently of the genus Anobium. 
Prof. Westwood remarked that a Committee jhad for some time been engaged 
at South Kensington upon the question of the injury done to ancient wood-carving. 
The Report of that Committee will shortly be ready, and he thought it would be 
found Voth interesting and valuable. 
Sir J. Hearsey exhibited a collection of Coleoptera from India and China ; the 
principal part from the former country. 
