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Entomological Society. 



had no wish to leave me. I transferred it to the branch of a tree, where it remained 

 fur some time, but on my again attempting to take it on my finger it flew away. — 

 W. C. Hewitson. 



Proceedin gs of Societies. 

 Entomological Society. 

 June 2, 1862. — Fredkiuck Smith, Esq., President, in the chair. 



Election of Members of Council. 



The Secretary read the notice summoning the members to a Special General 

 Meeting, for the purpose of electing a member of Council in the place of Dr. Knaggs, 

 resigned ; and the Meeting having been made a Special General Meeting, the Presir 

 dent appointed Messrs. Baly and Wilkinson to act as Scrutineers ; a ballot was taken, 

 and H. T. Stainton, Esq., was unanimously elected a member of the Council of the 

 Society. 



Election of Members. 



The Meeting having resumed as an Ordinary Meeting, W. H. L. Walcott, Esq., 

 and David Sharp, Esq., were severally ballotted for and elected Members of the 

 Society. 



Donations. 



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

 donors : — ' Memoir of the Rev. John Stevens Henslow, M.A., F.L.S , F.G.S., 

 F.C.P.S., late Rector of Hilcham, and Professor of Botany in the University of Cam- 

 bridge,' by the Rev. Leonard Jenyns, M.A., F.L.S., F.G.S., F.C.P.S. ; presented by 

 the Author. ' Schriften der Koniglichen Physikalisch-okonomischen Gesellschaft zu 

 Konigsberg, Zweiter Jahrgang, 1861, Erste und Zweite Abtheilung' ; by the Society. 

 'The Canadian Naturalist and Geologist, and Proceedings of the Natural-History 

 Society of Montreal, conducted by a Committee of the Natural-History Society,' Vol. 

 vii. No. 2 ; by the Society. ' The Zoologist ' for June ; by the Editor. ' The Journal 

 of the Society of Arts' for May ; by the Society. ' The London Review' for May; by 

 the Editor. ' Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society,' Vol. vi. No. 23 ; 

 by the Society. 



The addition to the Library, by purchase, of Jacquelin Du Val's ' Genera des Co- 

 leopteres d'Europe' was also announced. 



Exhibitions, §-c. 



The Secretary read a letter addressed to him by Charles Barton, Esq., of Rope 

 Hill, Lymington, requesting an explanation of a phenomenon he had observed in his 

 garden on the 21st ult. : the leaves of all the shrubs and plants were covered with 

 dust, which, with a half-inch object-glass, was found to consist of globules of one size, 

 like small pearl-barley ; with a quarter-inch object-glass these globules resembled the 

 ova of fish, but were net perfectly globular, being indented on one side. Some laurel 

 leaves, having some of the globular masses upon them, were exhibited to the meeting. 

 It was suggested by Mr. Saunders that most probably the dust consisted of the pollen 

 of some Coniferous tree. 



