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LONDON. Entomological Society, October 17.—Henry John Elwes, President, in the chair.—Dr. H. G. Breyer, of Prsetoria, Transvaal, South Africa, was elected a Fellow of the Society. Mr. G. C. Champion read a letter, dated August 15 last, from Mr. J. Y. Johnson, of Funchal, Madeira, on the subject of a recent visitation of locusts to the island, and exhibited specimens. Mr. Johnson mentioned that Darwin, in his “Origin of Species,” recorded that in November 1844, dense swarms of locusts visited Madeira.
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Societies and Academies. Nature 51, 46–48 (1894). https://doi.org/10.1038/051046a0
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