411 THE COTTAGE GARDENER AND COUNTRY GENTLEMAN’S COMPANION. —September 9,1850. 
and then proceeds to describe it, and to state that it had 
been mentioned by Plukenet. 
Mr. Reeve observes, in a letter with which he has 
favoured us, that this is a very elegant and useful Fern 
for growing in pots, or on rocks and other scenery, when 
successfully cultivated. Although rather shy of being 
removed, yet, with a little care, it may be successfully 
treated. We find with this, as with many other plants 
or Ferns that are rather impatient of moisture remain¬ 
ing about their roots, that they do not like to have the 
roots disturbed; therefore those who would like to culti¬ 
vate this Fern should obtain it either in a young state 
from its native place, or a well-established plant in a 
i pot from a nurseryman, to be planted or potted in a 
! oompost of two-tliirds fibry peat and one of leaf-mould 
! and sandy loam in equal parts, with a free admixture of 
; silver sand. The pots must be carefully and well drained, 
j Place one large crock or oyster-shell over the hole at the 
bottom of the pot; then place over this, according to the 
size of pot to be used, a quantity of small crocks, and 
above this place a little sphagnum, just sufficient to 
cover the crocks. The potting may then be carried out 
in the usual manner, potting rather firmly. Afterwards 
great care must be taken to see that the Fern does not 
have too much water, for it is very impatient of ex¬ 
cessive moisture. For the rockery or shrubbery it must 
also have a well-drained situation, or it will not succeed; 
and also a shady place will be required. The same 
I compost will do for this as for pot-culture, and, whether 
in the rockery or in pots, a slight sprinkling with the 
syringe or very fine-rosed pot will be found preferable, 
during fine growing weather, to the application of 
water to the roots alone. It is well adapted for either 
the rockery or shrubbery, and would look much 
better if planted in masses in the shrubbery in the 
same manner as mentioned for former species. It may 
be propagated by division, although with some difficulty, 
! but with more certainty from the mature fructification, 
j which will be ripe by the end of the summer months, 
1 and which may be sown and treated in the same way 
j as mentioned for other species. 
I The ordinary business of the Meeting of the Entomo¬ 
logical Society, on the 1st instant, was preceded by an 
announcement by the President, W. W. Saunders, Esq., 
F.R.S., Treasurer of the Hort. Soc., &c., of the great 
loss which Natural History had sustained in the sudden 
death of Mr. William Yarrell, which had occurred on 
the morning of the meeting, at Yarmouth. Mr. Yarrell 
was one of the foundation members of the Entomolo¬ 
gical Society, and had always taken a lively interest in 
| its success, having, indeed, acted as Treasurer for a long 
j period. As one of the most accomplished naturalists of 
1 Great Britain, and as one of the most amiable of men, 
Mr. Yarrell’s loss would be long and severely felt by all 
who had had the pleasure of knowing him or his 
■ works.* 
* In addition to his great works on British Fishes and Birds, Mr. 
Yarrell is known as the contributor of many valuable papers to the 
Transactions of our various Natural History Societies. He was one of 
The Secretary read a list of donations to the library 
received since the last meeting from the Royal Agri¬ 
cultural Society, the Zoological Society, the Society of 
Arts, Messrs. Stainton,Newman, &c. Many specimens of 
rare insects recently captured were exhibited by different 
members. 
By Mr. Wallace a specimen of Garadrina exigua, 
a rare Moth, belonging to the family Noctuidae, of 
which only a single specimen was known as indigenous; 
also, Botys silacealis of Hubner, known only as British, ' 
under the name of B. scabralis of Haworth, by a speci¬ 
men in Francillon’s old collection, in consequence of i 
which it, with various other species similarly circum- ! 
stanced, had been doubted as British. The last two ‘ 
summers have, however, been remarkable for confirm j 
ing the authentic classes of several long-disputed species 
as true natives of these islands. 
Mr. Ianson exhibited four species of Beetles of great 
rarity, which he had recently captured— Dinarda ' 
Merlcelii (D. dentatci Leach), known only by a single 
species in Leach’s collection in the British Museum, , 
upon which, as upon so many of Leach’s rare specimens, 
doubts as to their native origin had been improperly j 
thrown. It was taken by Mr. Ianson in the nest of the 
great Red Ant; also, Dendrophiluspygnueus ( D. Sheppardi I 
of Curtis), the typical specimen of which is in the 
Kirbian collection in the possession of tho Eutomo- ! 
logical Society, also taken in Ants’ nests; Dorcatonia 
rubens, taken in an old Ouk-tree, on which many of the 
larval are still feeding; and Cryphalusbinodulus, a genus 
of Beetles new to this country, belonging to the Bos 
trichidse, the species of which family are ordinarily 
found under the bark of coniferous trees; but this 
species was met with in some abundance under the bark j 
of the Aspen. 
Mr. Douglas stated that he had noticed Bostriclius j 
capucinus in the staves of Currant casks imported from ! 
the Ionian Islands. 
Mr. Samuel Stevens exhibited a Plugin and Pyratis, 
two species of Moths which he had reared from larvae, 
found feeding upon the foliage of plants imported from 
the Island of Madeira for sale, and he suggested the 
possibility of many species recorded as rare British 
natives having been reared from imported plants. 
Mr. Hunter stated the circumstances connected with 
the capture of the Eriopns Latreillii in the same house 
where Mr. Stevens’s collections were kept, whence lie 
inferred the possibility of its having been similarly im¬ 
ported, although he had actually found it on the door 
of his breeding-cage. | 
Mr. Turner exhibited a new species of Deprmaria ' 
from the neighbourhood of Worthing. Mr. Ne\vman j 
exhibited specimens of a species of Coccus, of con¬ 
siderable size, covered with a fine, white, woolly coating, 
the originators of the Zoological Society, in which he took a lively 
interest to the last, and also one of the editors of the “ Zoological 
Journal,” a very valuable series of zoological memoirs. It would, there¬ 
fore, he the height of injustice to his memory to disconnect his name ! 
with the great movement towards popularising and advancing zoological 
science in this country which took place about twenty-five years ago 
and which has since borne such abundant fruit. 
