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tribes, of the other Echinodermata, and of such of the Crustaceans as 

 are not included in these Lists, but which are likely to be found thus 

 far North, are earnestly solicited ; in exchange for which duplicates 

 of several of the rarer species of Crustaceans and star-fishes already 

 found in the Moray Firth will be readily given. 



G. Gordon. 

 Birnie, by Elgin, November, 1852. 



Proceedings of the Entomological Society. 



January 3, 1853. — J. 0. Westwood, Esq., President, in the chair. 



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

 donors : — The ' Zoologist ' and the ' Pbytologist' for January ; by the Editor. The 

 c Literary Gazette ' for December ; by the Editor. The ' Athenaeum ' for December; 

 by the Editor. The 'Annals of the Lyceum of Natural History of New York,' Vol. v. 

 Nos. 9 — 14, 1852 ; by the Lyceum. ' Second Report of the Commissioners for the 

 Exhibition of 1851 ; ' by the Commissioners. Hewitson's ' Exotic Butterflies,' Part 5 ; 

 by the Author. ' Monographic des Guepes Solitaires, ou de la Tribu des Eumeniens,' 

 par H. F. de Saussure ; by the Author. 



The following gentlemen were balloted for and elected Members of the Society : 

 William Thomson, Esq., Westow Hill, Norwood, and E.C. Buxton, Esq., Spikelands, 

 Liverpool : also the following as Subscribers to the Society: — Mons. Victor Signoret, 

 Paris ; H. V. Tebbs, Esq., Southwood Hall, Highgate, John Scott, Esq., Ferry Road, 

 Renfrew, and F. Moore, Esq., 4, Molesworth Place, Kentish Town. 



The President, having appointed Auditors of the Treasurer's Accounts for the past 

 year, and announced the changes recommended by the Council to be made in the 

 Officers and Council at the Anniversary Meeting on the 24th of January, informed the 

 Members of the death of J. F. Stephens, Esq., one of the Vice-Presidents of the Soci- 

 ety, on the 21st of December, after a short but severe illness ; and stating that he 

 should allude to his life and labours in the Anniversary Address, proposed as a tribute 

 of respect to his memory that the Meeting should forthwith adjourn ; which was una- 

 nimously agreed to. 



Resolved further, that a letter of condolence on her melancholy bereavement, be 

 sent to the widow of Mr. Stephens in the name of the Society. 



Anniversary Meeting, January 24, 1853. — J. 0. Westwood, Esq., President, in 

 the chair. 



The Secretary read the chapter of the Bye-laws pertaining to the Annual General 

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

 by the Council. 



One of the Auditors read an abstract of the Treasurer's Accounts for 1852, from 

 which it appeared that there was a deficiency of Assets compared with Liabilities of 

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