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expected to meet Mr. Whitehead, and had some correspondence 

 with him to that end, but, owing to the death, at the time, of a 

 member of his family, the project had to be given up. 



Formerly the Royal Agricultural Society attended to a great 

 deal of the entomological work of the kingdom through Miss 

 Ormerod, and latterly through Mr. Cecil Warburton. Mr. 

 Warburton, who is also connected with the Zoological Labo 

 ratory at Cambridge, reports somewhat as does Mr. Whitehead, 

 and is the technical adviser on all insect matters coming before 

 the Royal Society. At present the Royal Society is doing very 

 much less work in entomology than in the time of Miss Ormerod, 

 and inquiries of this nature are going more and more into the 

 hands of the Board of Agriculture. 



It is to be regretted that it was not possible, with the time at 

 command, to visit the veteran English economic entomologist, 

 Miss Ormerod, who, as is well known, continues actively at work 

 in the dissemination of entomological information by means of cir 

 culars, pamphlets, etc., much of it independently, and also through 

 the agency of local agricultural societies. 



The entomological department of the British Museum of Natural 

 History, South Kensington, is also slightly related to the economic 

 "work in entomology in Great Britain. Mr. C. O. Waterhouse, 

 in particular, is making a biological exhibit in entomology, and 

 gives special attention to insects of importance to agriculture. 

 He also, as he informed the writer, assists Mr. Whitehead in any 

 matter with which the latter is unfamiliar or unable to work out 

 for himself. 



On account of its being the vacation season, it was possible to 

 make the acquaintance of but few of the entomologists of the 

 Department of Zoology of the Museum. In company with Mr. 

 Waterhouse, however, a rather hurried examination was made 

 of the collections and exhibits in entomology, and particularly the 

 biological displays, in which Mr. Waterhouse takes considerable 

 pride. The writer had the pleasure of meeting Mr. Austin, 

 who is now doing some work on the Cuterebras, and saw Mr. 

 Kirby for a few minutes only, as the latter was on the eve of de 

 parture for a vacation in Germany. Some little time, also, was 

 spent in the examination of types of American insects. The main 

 collections of insects, which are not open to the general visitor, 



