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admit and correct one's own mistakes is praiseworthy, not blameworthy 

 I have no greater love for error than Mr. Lewis has. but I hope I am a httle 

 more tolerant of the mistakes of others than he is. All mistakes are to be 

 regretted; but when made, and afterwards found out to be mistakes 

 surely the best thing is to correct them. It can scarcely be contended thai 

 no one should publish anything until there is a certainty of freedom from 



Teln' P "" T ^Aft"' "'^^'' ^™"^^ '^' P'-^^^"* ''^'^ °f Science have 

 been ? Certainly :f Mr. Lewis bad waited until he attained immunity from 



blunder, we should not have had the satisfaction of reading his ' Discussion ' 

 in the year of grace 1872." ^^uaaiuu 



Mn Bates put some questions to the meeting, suggested to him by 

 Mr. Darwm, with a view to eliciting information as to sexual differences in 



nsects urnished with ocellated spots; and also as to sexual differences 

 among the Buprestidee. A conversation ensued, in which Mr. Jenner Weir 

 stated that m Satyrus Hyperanthus the spots were more numerous in the 



emale than in the male and Mr. Butler remarked that Drusillus had 

 double spots in one sex. It was also stated that Mr. Saunders had detected 

 corresponding sexual differences in the Buprestid^. 



New Part of ' Transactions.' 

 tJZl' '^ '""^ 'T^^"^^<='i-^' f°r 1872, completing the volume, was on 



April 7, 1873.-H. T. Stainton, Esq.. V.-P., in the chair. 



Donations to the Library. 

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

 - Bulletin de la Societe Imperiale des Naturalistes de Moscou,' 1872 

 No. 3 ; presented by the Society. ' Annales de la Societe Entomologique 

 de Belgique. tomexv.; by the Society. 'The Canadian Entomologist.' 

 vol. v.. no. 2 ; by the Editor. ' The American Naturalist,' vol. v.. nos 2- 

 12. and vol. VI.. nos 1-11; by the Editor. 'Memoirs of the Peabody 

 Academy of S-ence,' vol i.. nos. 2 and 3 ; and ' Fourth Annual Report of 

 he Trustees of the Peabody Academy of Science for the year 1871 • ' by 

 the Academy. ' Record of American Entomology for the year 1870 ; ' b^ the 

 Editor, A. S. Packard, jun., M.D. 'L'AbeiUe,' x., li/r. 5 and 6- bv t e 

 Editor. 'Exotic Butterflies.' part 86; by W. W. Saunders, Esq 'Le,^ 

 doptera Exotica ' part 1 6 ; by E. W. Janson, Esq. ' Traite rlnienta rl 

 En omo ogie ; by the Author. M. Maurice Girard. ' The Entomologist ' 

 and the 'Zoologist' for April; by the Editor. 'The Entomolog'll 



