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whitish mine, the mined tip of the leaf 
becoming- pink. 
Besides the above-named </rass-feeding 
larvae, we have several which feed in the 
leaves of different species of Cnrex, viz., 
E.cinerenpunctella, mining down from the 
tip of the leaves of Carex glauca, occurs 
in sheltered situations among junipers at 
Sanderslead ; E. Gleichenella, making 
whitish broad mines in a leaf of Carex, 
on sandy heaths; E. bialomella, also with 
a similar habit, on Box Hill; and E. 
Kilmunella, making long mines in a 
Carex growing in boggy places. 
Then we have the large whitish 
blotches in the leaves of Arundo phrag- 
mites, formed by the larvae of E. ceru- 
sella , and the mines in Eleocharis-stems 
of E. Rhynchosporella. 
An Elachista larva in Scirpus lacustris 
found by Mr. Scott, in 1854, was never 
reared. 
I have purposely omitted to mention 
here the dogwood-mining Treilschkiella, 
and the Clinopodium vulgare- miner E. 
Brunnichella, because they ill consort 
with the graminivorous group. — H. T. 
Stainton; April 7, 1856. 
THE LINNEAN SOCIETY. 
We are happy in being able to an- 
nounce that this venerable Society, the 
parent of all the other Natural History 
Societies in Britain, appears to have 
shaken off the lethargy that has so long 
oppressed it, and under the auspices of 
its new President shows signs of latent 
life and vigour : the best symptom is the 
publication, in a cheap and separate 
form, of the Journal of the Society’s 
Proceedings: No 1 is just out, and the 
publication will be continued quarterly. 
It is to contain such papers communi- 
cated to the Society as are not deemed to 
require illustration in quarto, besides an 
account of the Proceedings at the even- 
ing meetings. When the long interval 
that has elapsed between the appearance 
of the parts of the ‘ Transactions’ is con- 
sidered, this new periodical will be a 
great boon to those country and other 
members who could not hear read valu- 
able papers which would have slumbered 
for years in manuscript before they came 
to light in the ‘Transactions.’ Whether 
this sign of life will react in strengthen- 
ing the Society remains to be seen. For 
the bulk of naturalists the circle em- 
braced by this Society is too wide: it is 
only the man of wealth, leisure or sur- 
face, that can avail himself of it; but we 
have a reverence for it nevertheless, and 
hope that it may make yet more efforts, 
for which there is abundant room, to be- 
come useful to the mass of naturalists. 
A 
ERRATUM. 
The time fixed for the delivery of the 
Essay on the Natural History of Gelechia 
terrella to the Entomological Society, is 
fixed for the 31st December next, and 
not the 1st June, 1857, as mentioned in 
our last. 
OBITUARY. 
On the 7th of December last, at Fern 
Grove, River Hutt, New Zealand, died 
William Swainson, Esq., F.R.S., F.L.S., 
Assistant Commissary General, late of 
Tittenhanger, Hertfordshire, aged 66. 
Mr. Swainson was well known in scien- 
tific circles as a propounder of fanciful 
theories, and was the author of the Zoo- 
logical volumes of the ‘ Cabinet Cyclo- 
paedia;’ in the volume on Taxidermy 
and the Biography of Zoology, pp. 338 
— 351, will be found his own autobio- 
graphical sketch. 
