Entomoloyical Society. 



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If you feel so strongly on the subject it is much to be regretted that, as a member 

 of the Society, you should not have objec ted before the sale was finished. The subject 

 has been in discussion for several years; the resolution ordering the sale vvas passed 

 at the anniversary meeting, January 28, 1856, more than two years ago; the sale was 

 advertised in February last, and the catalogue distributed and sent to you at least 

 fourteen days before the sale, and if you had then stated your objection, the evil (if it 

 is any evil) might have been prevented, but as it is I fear that you must be considered 

 equally in the wrong (if it is a wrong, which I deny) as the other members of the 

 Society. 



I am, dear Mr. Hewitson, ' 

 Yours truly, 



John Edward Gray. 



To W. C. Hewitson, Esq., M.E.S. 



Proceedings of Societies. 

 Entomological Society. 

 April 5, 1858. — J. 0. Westwood, Esq., V.P., in the chair. 



Donations. 



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

 donors: — * Proceedings of the Royal Society,' Vol. ix. No. 29 ; presented by the 

 Society. ' The Zoologist' for March; by the Editor. 'Catalogue of British Cole- 

 optera,' by G. R. Waterhouse, Esq , F.Z.S., &c., two copies, one of them printed on 

 one side only; by the Author. 'The Literary Gazette' for March; by the Editor. 

 'The Journal of the Society of Arts' for March ; by the Society. ' Exotic Butter- 

 flies,' Part 26; by W. W. Saunders, Esq., F.R.S., &c. ' Stettiner Entomologische 

 Zeitung,' xix. jahrgang, Nos. 1 — 3 ; by the Entomological Society of Stettin. * The 

 Entomologist's Weekly Intelligencer,' Vol. iii. ; the same. No. 79 ; by H. T. Stainton, 

 Esq. ' The Athenaeum ' for February and March ; by the Editor. A pair of Carabus 

 intricatus, Linn.; by J. J. Reading, Esq. 



Election of Members. 

 Alexander Wallace, Esq., of Bembridge, Isle of Wight, and H. G. Knaggs, Esq., 

 of Maldon Place, Camden Town, were balloted for and elected Members of the 

 Society. 



Exhibitions. 



Mr. Stevens exhibited a specimen of Papilio Ulysses, taken by Mr. Wallace in 

 Aru, and observed that Mr. Wallace saw this species on the wing almost daily duriug 

 his three months' stay in the island, but, owing to its high and rapid flight, he only 

 succeeded in capturing two examples. 



Mr, Janson exhibited various Coleoptera, handed to him for that purpose by 

 Mr. Douglas, which had been recently tal^en by that gentleman in nests of Formica 

 rufa ; the species most noteworthy were Saprinus piceus, ///., Dendrophilus pygma3us, 

 L., Leptacinus formicetorum, Maerk.^ and Thiasophila angulata, Erichs. 



