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Hill, Ellesmere, on Friday evening, November 10th. There was a good 
attendance. The subject of the evening was Entomology, and the meeting 
took the form of a conversazione and exhibition of butterflies, moths, and 
other insects, and of collecting apparatus. The following were the chief 
exhibits:—(1.) Collection of foreign Butterflies and Moths from the Elles¬ 
mere Museum. (2 ) Collection of local Butterflies, representative of all 
authenticated specimens captured in the district, exhibited by Mr. H. J. E. 
Peake. (3.) Large collection of local Moths, exhibited by Mr. A. A. Thompson. 
(4.) Specimen of Acheronita atropos, caught near Ellesmere, and typical 
specimens of Plume Moths (Pterophoridse), including Pteropliorus pentadactylus , 
P. lithodacytus, and Alucita polydactyta, by Mr. J. A. S. Jennings. (5.) 
Collection of foreign Neuroptera, Orthoptera , &c., from the Ellesmere Museum. 
(6.) Collection of local Goleoptera and other insects, and also several foreign 
insects, including a good specimen of the Vegetable Caterpillar ( Cordyceps 
Gunnii), from Australia, by Mr. A. A. Thompson. (7.) Typical Collection of 
local Neuroptera, Orthoptera, Diptera, Hymenoptera, Strrpsiptera, and Coleoptera, 
by Mr. J. A. S. Jennings. (8.) Number of Microscopic Slides of Scales, 
Antennae, &c., of Insects, by Mr. H. J. E. Peake. (9.) Nets, Collecting Boxes, 
Setting Boards, &c., &c., by Mr. H. J. E. Peake and Mr. Jennings. A very 
pleasant evening was spent.—A special meeting of the above society was held in 
the Museum, on Monday, November 20th, to consider a recommendation of the 
committee that an invitation should be sent to the Midlaud Union asking them 
to hold their Annual Meeting for 1894 at Ellesmere. The chair was occupied 
by Brownlow R. C. Tower, Esq., President of the Society. Letters were read 
from S. K. Maiuwariug, Esq., and A. T. Jebb, Esq., Vice-Presidents, 
regretting their inability to be present. The question having been fully 
discussed, it was unanimously decided to carry out the recommendation of 
the committee. The honorary secretary was accordingly instructed to send 
an invitation to the secretary of the Midland Union. H. J. E. Peake, Esq., 
was appointed to act jointly with the honorary secretary (Mr. J. A. S. 
Jennings) as secretaries, and committees were nominated for carrying out 
the arrangements if the invitation should be accepted.—The second of a 
series of six evening meetings was held at a later hour the same evening, 
in the Wharf School-room (A. T. Jebb, Esq., in the chair), when an 
interesting and instructive paper on “ The Wild Beasts of Great Britain ” 
was read by George Dumville Lees, Esq., of Oswestry. He excluded from 
his list animals which had now become extinct, and then proceeded to give 
a brief account of living wild animals of these islands. A vote of tliauks 
was moved by the Rev. F. Alderson (Vice-President), seconded by Rev. W. C. 
Tabor, and carried with applause. There was a small exhibition of animals, 
including a fox and an otter exhibited by Mr. Jebb, and a stoat and bat by 
Mr. H. J. E. Peake. 
December, 1893. 
