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business engagements had prevented him from being present ; but had heard from 

 more fortunate persons that they never spent a more pleasant day. He thought, 

 therefore, the present was a fitting opportunity for proposing a vote of thanks to the 

 President for his liberality on this and all other occasions. 



Dr. Gray, as one of those present on the occasion alluded to, most cordially 

 seconded this motion, which was submitted to the meeting by Mr. Douglas, and car- 

 ried by acclamation. 



Donations. 



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

 donors: — 'Die im Bernstein befindlichen organischen Reste der Vorwelt gesammelt 

 in Verbindung mit Mehreren bearbeitet und herausgegeben von Dr. Georg Carl Be- 

 rendt, Erster Band, Erste & Zweite Abtheilungen, Zweiter Band, Erste Abtheilung \ 

 presented by Madame Berendt. ' Abhandlungen der Mathemat. Phvsikalischen 

 Classe der Koeniglich Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften,' Vol. xvii. Part 3 ; 

 ' Dr. F. B. W. von Hermann, Ueber die Gliederung der Bevolkerung des Konigreichs 

 Bayern ;' ' Denkrede auf die Akademiker Dr. Thaddaus Siber und Dr. Georg Simon 

 Ohm ;' ' Almanach der Koniglich Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften fur das 

 Jahr, 7855;' presented by the Royal Bavarian Academy of Sciences. Hewitson's 

 1 Exotic Butterflies, 1 Part 19 ; by W. W. Saunders, Esq. ' Journal of the Proceedings 

 of the Linnean Society,' No. 2 ; by the Society. ' Jubile Semi-Seculaire de la Societe 

 Imperiale des Naturalistes de Moscou le 28 Decembre, 1855 ;' by the Society. 'Ge- 

 nera des Coleopteres,' Tome iii. ; by the Author, M. Th. Lacordaire. ' Revue et Ma- 

 gasin de Zoologie,' 1856, No. 5 ; by the Editor, Monsieur F. E. Guerin-Meneville. 

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

 June; by the Society. The ' Literary Gazette' for June; by the Editor. The 

 ' Athenaeum' for June ; by the Editor. 'A Catalogue of British Ichneumonidae in 

 the Collection of the British Museum,' by Thomas Desvignes; by the Author. 'A 

 Manual of British Butterflies and Moths,' No. 5 ; by the Author, H. T. Stainton, 

 Esq. The 'Entomologist's Weekly Intelligencer,' Nos. 10 — 14; by the Editor. 

 ' EntoraologischeZeitung,' 1856, Nos. 5 and 6; by the Entomological Society of Stet- 

 tin. An engraving on steel of Lithocolletis tenella; by Edward Robinson, Esq. 



Mr. Westwood read a translation of Madame Berendt's letter accompanying the 

 donation of her late husband's 'Organischen Reste in Bernstein,' which stated that on 

 the completion of the work it is her intention to dispose of the cabinet left by Dr. 

 Berendt at his decease, in which the greater part of the original specimens figured 

 and described in the work are contained. He observed that such a collection was 

 extremely interesting, from the fact that while in very few instances fossil insects 

 could be decyphered in all their parts so as satisfactorily to determiue their structure 

 and relations, these amber insects, being enclosed in a transparent substance, are quite 

 visible and easily examined. Supposing the collection to have been formed from spe- 

 cimens of amber collected on the shores of the Baltic (the chief source of supply for 

 this material), it would show that the climate of Prussia had undergone many changes; 

 for it contained a great number of forms quite analogous or even identical with exist- 

 ing European groups, intermingled with others of a tropical character, and others, 

 again, quite distinct, especially among the Ncuroptcra, where so many gaps in the 

 natural series exist in the known forms. The volume published contained the plants, 

 Aptera of Linnaeus, Hemiptera and Neuroptera, the latter very carefully worked out 





