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PROCEEDINGS OF NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETIES. 
ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 
May 7- —J. F. Stephens, Esq., Pres., in the chair.—Mr. Sells exhibited speci¬ 
mens of the rare Copris lunaris , and of the curious cocoon in which it passes the pupa 
state. Mr. Ashton presented a figure of a specimen of Notonectafurcata, infested 
by a minute parasite which attaches itself to its leg; and Mr. Aldous presented 
his highly-magnified figure of the head of the Flea, as represented under the 
solar microscope, exhibiting all the parts of the mouth, respecting which so much 
uncertainty had prevailed.—Various other exhibitions were made by members, and 
a discussion took place as to the nature of the food of the Bot of the Horse; Mr. 
Sells maintaining that it was nourished upon fluids from the vascular structure 
of the Horse’s stomach, in opposition to the opinion of Mr. Bracy Clark, that 
they fed upon chyle or chyme.—The Rev. F. W. Hope communicated a table of 
the genera and species of insects infested by Filarice and other parasitic Worms. 
—The commencement of a monograph on the Coleopterous genus Popillia, by Mr. 
Newman, was read. 
ORNITHOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 
May 5. —J. R. Gowen, Esq., in the chair.—The report of the Council stated 
that the Hon. P. C. Scarlett, M.P., the ITon. J. Y. Scarlett, M.P., C. B. 
Brown, Esq., and Mr. E. Mammatt, had been elected members of the Society. 
A donation of specimens had been received from the Lady Rolle ; and it was 
announced that the Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Woods and Forests had 
caused some ponds and shallows to be made on the larger island in St. James’s Park, 
in compliance with a request to that effect made to them by the Council of the 
Society.—The Council had not had time to act upon the system determined on in the 
recently-passed bye-laws for the removal and election of officers and members of 
the Council; but they proposed to act upon it as fully as the time would allow. 
They had, therefore, to announce that they propose the Duke of Buccleugh to 
be elected President in the room of the Earl of Liverpool, Mr. W. Holl to be 
Secretary, and F. B. Long, Esq., to be Treasurer; the following noblemen and 
gentlemen to retire from the Council:—his Grace the Duke of Bedford, W. G. 
Chapman, Esq., the Earl of Liverpool, Capt. Mangles, R.N., and Sir J. D. 
Paul, Bart.; and the following to be elected in their stead:—his Grace the Duke 
of Buccleugh, the Hon. P. C. Scarlett, M.P., F. B. Long, Edward Jesse, and 
0. Morgan, Esqrs. 
Mr. Blytii then exhibited specimens of the three wild British Geese allied to 
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