An address delivered at the anniversary meeting of the Entomological Society of London, on the 22nd February, 1844 / by George Newport.

  • Newport, George, 1803-1854.
Date:
1844
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Credit: An address delivered at the anniversary meeting of the Entomological Society of London, on the 22nd February, 1844 / by George Newport. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the Transactions of the Royal Society, on the anatomy and functions ot the nervous system in the Myriapoda and Macrourous Arachnida, and on the existence of a complete circulation of the blood in vessels in these classes. The part of the Transactions of the Zoological Society which has just made its appearance contains an elaborate memoir, with two plates, by Mr. Westwood, on the South-African species of the family Tenebrionidae. The Transactions of the Royal Agricultural Society contain the completion of the valuable papers by Mr. Curtis on insects injurious to the cultivation of turnip crops ; and others, under the signature of Ruricola, have also been published by the same naturalist in Professor Lindley’s ‘ Gardener’s Chronicle.’ Many other detached papers have been published in the different journals of Natural History. In the ‘ Annals and Magazine of Natural History,’ original papers have appeared by Mr. Waterhouse on foreign Coleoptera; Mr. Denny on new species of Pulex and Ixodes ; Mr. White on Annulose animals; Mr. Tulk on Phalangium; Captain Hutton on the habits of Galeodes ; and a paper by myself, read at the December meeting of our Society, on the existence of branchiae in perfect insects of the genus Pteronarcys. In a new periodical, the ‘ Zoologist,’ commenced in the beginning of last year, Mr. Waterhouse has given an interesting account of the habits of Osmia atricapilla, and Mr. Smith has a paper on the species and habits of British wasps, as well as a short account of the capture of Claviger foveolatus in considerable numbers, in pairs, in the nests of Formica Jlava, at Mickleham, in Surrey, in June 1843. Mr. Doubleday had taken a single specimen of this insect, in the same locality, in the month of April of the same year, and Mr. Westwood formerly took a single specimen in Oxfordshire. Some valuable papers have been published by Mr. Goodsir in the Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, on new species of Crus- tacea. I cannot here omit to notice the important additional con- firmation given by this careful observer of the discovery of Mr. J. V. Thomson, of the metamorphoses of the Crustacea, in opposition to the views of Mr. Gray, Westwood and others. A list of the Coleoptera of Northumberland has been published in the journal of the Berwickshire Natural History Society. Mr. Gray has also published some additional sheets of his ‘ Zoo- logical Journal,’ which contain some new species of insects, from the cabinets of the British Museum, by Edward Doubleday, Esq. and Mr. A. White. A new publication, indirectly connected with Entomology, has recently appeared, under the title of the ‘ Physiological Journal,’ the object of which is to bring under notice the new facts ascertained by the microscope. Another work, more closely connected with Entomology, has also been announced, by the Rev. P. B. Brodie, on the fossil insects of this countrJ^ The novelty and interest of the subject of this work well entitle it to encouragement.
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