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Australia and New Zealand, a portion of the ova furnished hy them having heen sent 

 to Melbourne and Strathmore, and to Christchurch and Otago in New Zealand. They, 

 appear to have thriven wonderfully. No further certain news has heen received with 

 respect to the salmon. That several have been received far up the river admits of very 

 little doubt ; and thai the fish have been seen in pairs, which leads to a hope that they 

 may spawn successfully in the natural way, is also asserted. One difficulty which the 

 salmon appear likely to have to contend with is the poaching with small-meshed nets 

 in the mouths of the rivers, which appears to be very rile in places ; and as tbe Victorian 

 Acclimatisation Society are unable to afford the cost of sufficient, bailiffs to keep it iu 

 check, and the police are not allowed to interfere, — though it seems hard, in such a case, 

 to understand why, — there can be little doubt that a good deal of needless difficulty is 

 likely to be thrown in the way of the free passage of tbe fish either up or down. It is 

 to be hoped that the Society will see their way to appointing a sufficient force of bailiffs 

 to keep this danger down as much as possible until the Derwent is fairly stocked with 

 salmon. 



Grasshoppers in British America.. — At Fort Garry, Red River Settlement, Hudson's 

 Bay, Mr. Power writes to the ' Times' : — "The grasshoppers came in swarms of count- 

 less millions from the north-west, on last harvest, and destroyed a great portion of the 

 grain and nearly the whole of the vegetable crops, and deposited their eggs in the 

 ground an inch and a half deep, so that if you were to dig to that depth you would see 

 the earth covered with their eggs. There never were seen finer crops in England or 

 Scotland than were here last harvest, and this year they appeared equally good up to 

 June, and the season continues beautiful up to this time. The grasshoppers began to 

 hatch about the end of May, and to begin their work of destruction in June, and so 

 complete was it, they would begin on a field of wheat, barley, oats, or potatoes, and 

 leave it as though it were newly ploughed and harrowed, scarcely a weed being left or 

 a particle of anything for the use of mankind. The most beautiful part of our 

 settlement is from Fort Garry to the White Horse Plains, and from there to tbe 

 Portage, a distance of about sixty miles, runs the deep-flowing Assiniboine, with small 

 farm-houses all along its banks, and with large woods and plains all the way, and in 

 all that distance there is not a fruit or a kernel, or a particle of anything left for the 

 use of mankind." 



PROCEEDINGS OF SOCIETIES. 



Entomological Society. 

 November 2, 1868. — H. W. Bates, Esq., President, in the chair. 



Additions to the Library. 



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

 ' Proceedings of the Royal Society,' No. 103 ; presented by the Society. ' Transactions 

 of the Linnean Society,' Vol. xxvi. Part 1 ; 'Journal of the Linnean Society,' Zoology, 

 Nos. 42 and 43; by the Society. 'Proceedings of the Zoological Society,' Index, 



