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by the Editor. The * Literary Gazette' for December ; by the Editor. The ' Journal 

 of the Society of Arts,' for December ; by the Society. Hewitson's ' Exotic Butterflies,' 

 Part 9 ; by W. W. Saunders, Esq. ' Verhandlungen des zoologisch-botanisch Vereins 

 in Wein,' 1 Band. Wein, 1852; by the Society. ' Entomologische Zeitung,' October 

 to December, 1853, and for 1853, complete. ' Linnea Entomologica,' viii. Band. 

 Berlin. 1853. ' Beitrage zur nahern Kenutniss von Periplaneta (Blatta) orientalis, 

 Linne ; ' von C. Cornelius ; Elberfeld ; all by the Entomological Society of Stettin. 

 1 Report of the Council of the Art Union of London for 1853,' and 'Almanac for 1854 ; ' 

 by the Art Union. Two pairs of Laelia ccenosa ; by Mr. Foxcroft. Fifty specimens 

 of butterflies; by T. J. Stevens, Esq., Bogota, Corr. M. E. S. A box of British 

 Micro-Lepidoptera ; by P. H. Vaughan, Esq. 



Death of Mr. Thomas Whitfield. 

 It was announced that Mr. Thomas Whitfield, well known as a zoological col- 

 lector in Africa, and whose exertions, during thirty years, added many rare animals to 

 the collection of the late Earl of Derby, the British Museum, &c, died in London, on 

 the 25th of December last. 



Election of a Subscriber. 

 Miss S. Thompson, Barn Hill, near Stamford, was elected a Subscriber to the 

 Society. 



Exhibitions. 

 Mr. S. Stevens exhibited some butterflies received by him from Mr. T. J. 

 Stevens, of Bogota, among them a couple of the rare and beautiful Morpho Ga- 

 nymede, Westwoody (M. Sulskowskii, Kollar). One of them being quite spoiled by 

 grease when it arrived, was immersed for twenty-four hours in camphine, and then 

 magnesia having been applied, it was restored to its original brilliancy, so that no one 

 could tell which of the two had been greasy. He also exhibited a few butterflies from 

 Manilla, whence very few are obtained in this country. 



Method of taking Honey from Beehives in China. 

 Mr. Westwood handed the following extract from the ' Gardener's Chronicle,' to 

 which journal it was communicated by Mr. It. Fortune : — 



" I am staying at present (August 16th) in a Buddhist temple, situated in a most 

 romantic and beautiful spot amongst the tea-hills in the province of Chekiang. 

 Some of the priests in this temple are fond of bees, or it may be they are fonder 

 of the honey, and keep a number of hives. The Chinese hive is a very rude 

 affair, and a very different looking thing from those we are accustomed to use in 

 England, and yet I suspect were the bees consulted in the matter they would prefer 

 the Chinese one to ours. It consists of a rough box, sometimes square and sometimes 

 cylindrical, with a movable top and bottom. When the bees are put into a hive of 

 this description it is rarely placed on or near the ground, as with us, but is raised 

 eight or ten feet, and generally fixed under the projecting roof of a house or out- 

 building. No doubt the Chinese have remarked the partiality which the insects have 

 for places of this kind when they choose quarters for themselves, and have taken a 

 lesson from this circumstance. My landlord, who has a number of hives, having 



