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column consisted of two trains of ants, moving in opposite directions, one train empty- 

 handed, the other loaded with a variety of the mangled remains of insects, chieBy the 

 lavvEe and pupEe of ants. 



Mr. Brayley, present as a visitor, remarked that this fact might illustrate one of 

 the causes of the accumulation of insect remains seen in strata of the secondary geo- 

 logical formation, for if these trains of ants had been covered up suddenly, the stratum 

 iu which they were imbedded would in after time exhibit the same appearance as the 

 deposits to which he had alluded. 



Mr. Saunders observed, that insects were sometimes congregated together in 

 immense numbers by local or accidental circumstances: he remembered especially 

 that, a few years since, Galeruca Tanaceti was seen in immense numbers on the 

 Norfolk coast. 



Anniversary Meeting, January 22, 1855. 

 Edward Newman, Esq., President, in the chair. 



Election of Officers. 



The Secretary read the chapter of the Bye-laws pertaining to the Anniversary 

 Meeting, and the Report of the Library and Cabinet Committee made to and adopted 

 by the Council. The Treasurer's accounts, duly audited, were laid before the Meeting, 

 and it appeared that the finances of the Society were now in a better condition than 

 at any former period. The ballot for four new members of the Council then look 

 place, when F. Bond, Esq., J. Curtis, Esq., J. Lubbock, Esq., and J. O. Westwood, 

 Esq., were elected iu the room of W. S. Dallas, Esq., W. W. Saunders, Esq., S. J. 

 Wilkinson, Esq., and W. Wing, Esq., and the following gentlemen were then elected 

 officers for the year: John Curtis, Esq., F.L.S., 8cc., President; Samuel Stevens, Esq., 

 J\L.S., Treasurer ; J. W. Douglas, Esq., and Edwin Shepherd, Esq., Secretaries. 



The President»delivered the following Address, for which and his services to the 

 Society during the last two years the Meeting passed a cordial vote of thanks, and 

 requested he would allow the Address to be printed. 



Votes of thanks were also passed to Mr. Stevens and Mr. Douglas for their services 

 in the respective offices of Treasurer and Secretary. 



