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dual no less than 208 ; 160 others were purchased by the 

 Library and "Wilson" funds; and the remainder were re- 

 ceived from other sources. Of these there were 328 on 

 Conchology alone; 103 on Geology; 45 on Entomology; 

 39 on Botany; 2>Z on Ornithology; 53 on General Natural 

 History; besides quite a large number of others on diffeient 

 scientific subjects. 



More to recommend the above suggestions I cannot well 

 say, but I think the statements cannot fail to show how great a 

 boon to naturalists a similar Agency in this country would 

 prove, provided it were ably conducted, and fully acknowledged 

 and supported by the leading scientific societies: Scientific 

 circles in time, I believe, would be enlarged, and not be con- 

 fined to the metropolis, or nearly so. There are plenty of good 

 men out of London, Edinburgh, Glasgow, and the large 

 towns, who have no opportunities of reading, being removed 

 from the principal scientific libraries. 



Not one individual, nor indeed any one society, could set 

 such an undertaking afloat, with all the necessary careful and 

 exhaustive machinery of management which would be necessary 

 for its success. But if all the leading societies would jointly 

 discuss its merits and demerits, and at length bring it carefully 

 and repeatedly before the notice of the British Association, I 

 see no reason against its ultimate complete success. But to 

 arrive at this first step it is necessary to ventilate the suggestion, 

 and this cannot be better done, I believe, than by bringing it 

 before the notice of the local societies, and asking each to 

 assist in bringing it finally before a higher court." 



John Ar Harvje Bro\v>\ 



MEMOIRS ON SCOTTISH TENTHREDINID£. 



By V. CAMERON, Jun. 



No. II.-NEMATUS DEGEERT. 



Tenthredo Degeeri Klug ; Die B/att7ces/>en No. 169. 



T. Geeri Stephens; ///. Brit. Ent. vii. p. 80. No. 25. 



Dineura Degeeri Hartig ; Die Blattwespen, Sex., 227, No. 1. 



Nematus Degeeri Thomson, Hymen. Scand., 80, No. r. 



