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arrived on the 9th of October. Several other donations have been received from va- 

 rious sources : and the purchases effected at the sale of the collection of the late Presi- 

 dent, included sixty-six species of the greatest beauty and rarity. Of these, but a 

 small number have as yet been removed from Knowsley to the Menagerie in the Re- 

 gent's Park, in consequence of the buildings which are in progress there being not yet 

 entirely complete. 



The Scientific Meetings will be resumed on Tuesday evening next, when, among 

 other communications, Professor Owen will read a paper " On the Relative Capacity 

 of ihe Cranium in the Negro, Chimpanzee, and Orang-utan." — D. W. M. 



Proceedings of the Entomological Society. 



November 3, 1851. — J. O. Westwood, Esq., President, in the chair. 



The following donations were announced, and thanks ordered to be given to the 

 donors : — ' The Annual Report of the Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society,' 

 1849-50; by the Society. * Jahresbericht des Naturwissenchaftlichen Vereines in 

 Halle,' two parts, 1849-50 and 1850 ; by the Society. ' Bibliotheca Historico-Natu- 

 ralis et Physico-Chemica,' Erster Jahrgang, Is Heft; Halle, 1851 ; by E. A. Zuc- 

 kold, Foreign Member of the Society. The ' Athenaeum' for October ; by the Editor. 

 The 'Zoologist' for November; by the Editor. A second box of Renfrewshire in- 

 sects ; by Mr. Young, of Paisley. A case of Tasmanian insects (from the Great Ex- 

 hibition) ; by F. Cox, Esq., Van Diemen's Land. A glass case containing a piece of 

 honeycomb, in which a queen bee had been reared from the worker-brood, (from the 

 Great Exhibition) ; by Mr. Golding. 



The following books had been obtained for the Society : — ' Orlhoptera descripta 

 et depicta a T. de Charpentier.' Lipsiae, 1845 ; and ' Libellulinae European descriptae 

 ac depictae a T. de Charpentier.' Lipsiae, 1840. 



Mr. John Hunter, of 24, Bloomsbury Street, London, was balloted for and elected 

 a Member of the Society. 



The President, in exhibiting the honeycomb presented by Mr. Golding, read the 

 following memorandum from that gentleman's note-book : — " July 2nd. Hive No. 

 5 having lost its queen, gave it a piece of brood-comb from another hive. On the 8th 

 found a sealed royal cell upon it. On the 15th, the young queen was come forth. On 

 the 28th found eggs and young larvae in the hive ; consequently the operation was 

 completely successful. The queen thus raised is now queen of the hive." Mr. Gold- 

 ing adds that " this might be taken as a specimen of the facilities offered by hives hav- 

 ing movable leaves or bars.'' 



Mr. Stevens exhibited a new British coleopterous insect — Dircaea discolor ; and 

 one of the rare British Tineidae — Gracillaria Phasianipennella ; both taken this year 

 in Scotland, by Mr. Weaver. Mr. Stevens also exhibited specimens of Helops palli- 

 dus, Curtis, found at Tenby by the Rev. H. Bumie. 



Mr. Edwin Shepherd exhibited some beautiful specimens of Aporophila australis, 

 and one example of the pale variety of Colias Edusa ; all captured this autumn near 

 Deal. 



Mr. Smith exhibited some oak-leaves, with galls, commonly known as " oak-span- 

 gles," attached. In one of these he had found a larva, probably that of Cynips longi- 

 pennis, an insect hitherto obtained only in the perfect state. 



