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Certificates in favour of George Robert Gray, Esq., the Rev. T. H. Browne and 

 Alfred Haward, Esq., as Members of the Society, were read a first time, and ordered 

 to be suspended in the Meeting Room. 



There were on the table, for distribution among the Members, copies of the Address 

 delivered at the Anniversary Meeting on the 27th of January, 1862, by J. W. Douglas, 

 Esq., President; also copies of aa Address delivered at the ordinary Meeting on the 

 3rd of February, 1862, by H. T, Slainton, Esq. 



The Society's Collection. 



The President, by the desire of the Council, stated to the Meeting the steps taken 

 by the Council in consequence of their attention having been called to the state of the 

 Society's Collections: the Council had held two Special Meetings, had obt lined from 

 the Curator an explanation of the manner in which his time was employed, and, after 

 full consideration thereof, had passed the following Resolution : — " That the thanks of 

 the Council be given to the members of the late Library aud Cabinet Committee for 

 their very careful Report on the state of the Society's Collections ; and the Council, 

 having requested and obtained from the Curator an explanation with respect to the 

 employment of his time when at the Society's Rooms, considers such explanation 

 satisfactory." 



The * Transactions ' of the Society. 



The President announced that the Council had rescinded the Resolution of Council 

 of the 7th of February, 1859, by virtue of which all Members and Subscribers whose 

 subscriptions were not in arrear received the ' Transactions' gratis ; that in future 

 Members and Subscribers resident in or within fifteen miles of London would have to 

 purchase the ' Transactions,' as was the case prior to February, 1859 (and see ' Bye- 

 Laws,' ch. xxi.), but that the price to Members and Subscribers would be one-half the 

 price to the public. It was also announced that with the forthcoming first part of a 

 new volume would be commenced the " Third Series '' of the Society's ' Transactions,' 

 and that a general index to the five volumes of the second or " New Series " would be 

 prepared and published as soon as possible. 



Exhibitions. 



Mr. Newman exhibited series of bred specimens of two British species of the genus 

 Cabera. He remarked that each series had been arranged with the view of showing 

 that the particular colouring supposed to be distinctive of Cabera rotundaria was 

 nothing more than an intermediate state between an insect with two aud one with 

 three transverse lines or bars. In the upper specimens in each series there were but 

 two transverse bars ; in the specimens next following the first or basal bar appeared 

 separating into two bars, yet these were almost contiguous; in the succeeding speci- 

 mens they grew more and more distant, until at the bottom of the series, both in C. 

 pusaria and C. exanthemaria, the three transverse bars were equally distinct and 

 equidistant. The rounded form of the wings, which was supposed to have suggested 

 the name of" rotundaria," was proved by this series to be equally instable. 



Mr. Newman expressed his obligations to Mr. Thomas Huckett, who had bred the 

 whole of the insects exhibited, and had arranged them as they now stood, afl'ording a 

 convincing proof that C. rotundaria was a mere variation, to which both the acknow- 

 ledged species C. pusaria and C. exanthemaria were liable. 



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