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course was still. It appeared as if death crept gradually over the creature, but perhaps 

 the movement of the cilia should not be accepted as a proof of life, as it is well IcnowQ 

 that in the hii^hest animals ciliary action will continue long after death. — George 

 Guy on ; Ventnor, Isle of Wight, September 29, 1858. 



Infusoria on a Praivn. — The other day I observed the interior of the exuvia of a 

 small prawn that was lying in a bottle of sea-water swarming with infusoria, which 

 were no doubt attracted by some nutritive matter adhering to the shell. They had 

 penetrated all the limbs ; the legs were thronged, and some were disporting them* 

 selves in the very claws. But it was most curious to see them passing along the an- 

 tennas, which appeared as slender as a human hair ; they were visible for two-thirds 

 or three-fourths the length of the organ, but beyond that distance it was no longer 

 navigable even for their minute frames, being but the -j^ inch diameter. The scene 

 was a Temple Bar in miniature, and many an atom found himself too bulky to pass 

 his comrade. One antennse exhibited a slight monstrosity, the 44th joint being J inch 

 long, or equal to about six of the neighbouring joints. — Id. 



Proceedings of Societies. 

 Entomological Society. 

 October 4, 1858. — J. O. Westwood, Esq. V.P., in the chair. 



Donatio7is. 



The following donations were announced, and thanks ordered to be presented to 

 the donors: — ' Biblotheca Historico-naturalis. Achter Jahrgang, von Ernst A. 

 Zuchold; ' presented by the Editor. ' Proceedings of the Zoological Society,' Nos, 

 350 to 302 ; by the Society. ' Proceedings of the Eoyal Society,' No. 32 ; by 

 the Society. ' Memoires d' Entomologie publiees par la Societe Entomologique des 

 Pays-bas, Livraisons,' 4, 5 and 6 ; by the Society. ' The Journal of the Society of 

 Arts' for September ; by the Society. 'The Zoologist' for October; by the Editor. 

 ' The Literary Gazette ' for September; by the Editor. * The Atheneeum ' for Sep- 

 tember; by the Editor. ' The Natural History of the Tineina,' Vol. iii. ; ' Manual of 

 British Moths and Butterflies,' Nos. 20 and 21 ; ' The Entomologist's Weekly Intelli- 

 gencer ' for 1858 ; the same. No. 105 ; by H. T. Stainton, Esq. ' Monographic des 

 Elaterides,' par M. E. Candize, Tome Premier ; by the Author. 



Election of Members, 



E. H. Mitford, Esq., of Haverstock Place, Hampstead, was ballotted for and 

 elected a Member; and W. H. Allchin, Esq., 7, Pembridge Villas, Bayswater, 

 a Subscriber to the Society. 



jEx /libit ions. 



Mr. Stainton exhibited, on behalf of Mr. Boyd, some of the latter gentleman's 

 most interesting captures in Cornwall this summer, interesting not merely as species 

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