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of any such memorial of some of our distinguished entomologists {e.g., the late 

 James Francis Stephens), and to the interest which, after the lapse of a few years, 

 would doubtless attach to such a collection, had determined to provide a proper book 

 for the reception and preservation of photographs of such Members and Subscribers 

 as would be kind enough to present their likenesses to the Society. He trusted that 

 the existing Members of the body would readily respond to this invitation. 



Special General Meeting. 

 The Secretary gave notice that a Special General Meeting would be held on 

 Monday, the 1st of June, at 8 p. m. (or so soon thereafter as the business of the 

 Ordinary Meeting should be concluded), to consider whether the Society's collection 

 of British Insects should be retained or disposed of; and that at such Meeting 

 Kesolutions would be proposed with a view to carry into effect the recommendations to 

 the Council, which were agreed to by the Library and Cabinet Committee at its 

 meeting held on the 30th of March last. 



June I, 1863. 



Frederick Smith, Esq., President in the chair. 



Donations. 

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

 —'The Transactions of the Entomological.Society of New South Wales,' Vol. i. Part I ; 

 presented by the Society. ' Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society,' Vol. vii. 

 No. 26 ; by the Society. ' The Intellectual Observer,' No. xvii. ; by the publishers. 

 'The Zoologist' for June; by the Editor. 'The Journal of the Society of Arts' for 

 May ; by the Society. ' The Reader ' for May ; by the Editor. ' Stettiner Entomo- 

 logische Zeitung,' Vol. 24, Nos. 4—6; by the Entomological Society of Stettin. 



Election of Member. 

 A certificate in favour of^Alfred R. Wallace, Esq., as a Member of the Society was 

 read. On the proposition of Mr. Dunning, seconded by Mr. Stainton, it was unani- 

 mously resolved that, as a slight recognition of the vast services rendered to Science 

 by this distinguished entomologist, zoologist and traveller (and following the prece- 

 dents afforded by the election of Mrs. F. W. Hope, and that of Mr. Tweedy in 1850), 

 the customary two-months' suspension of the certificate in the meeting-room, and the 

 formal vote by ballot, be dispensed with; and Mr. Wallace was accordingly elected 



by acclamation. 



Exhibitions, 8fC. 



Mr. Stainton exhibited some young Lepidopterous larvae mining the leaves of the 

 hazel. The same larva had been found in the leaves of Ribes sanguineum, and in the 

 North of England in birch leaves. It retained the mining habit only for a short time, 

 and subsequently became an external feeder. The larva was that of an Incurvaria, 

 and would probably prove to be T. pectiuea. 



