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The Autobiography of a White Cabbage Butterfly. By MichaeI-, Westcott. 

 With a few Introductory Eemarks by Bkverley R. Morkis, Esq., A.B., 

 M.D. Wells: W. and II Georgic. 



This is a pleasant little tale, and well suited for giving children a proper 

 notion of the transformations of insects. 



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Tlie London Wo7'lcing Entomologists held their usual Monthly Meeting 

 at 52, High Holborn, when two specimens of Notodonta Carmelita, taken 

 at West Wickham, were exhibited. 



The Secretary begs to inform the members that he has a cabinet of 

 British Insects, for the use of the members to name their specimens by. 

 — James Gardner, Hon. Sec. 



The Dabchick. — If this should meet the eye of the Rev. J. C. Atkinson, 

 I should be glad if he would explain the following apparent contradiction 

 in his account of this bird in the ^'Zoologist:" — At page 500, he writes, 

 "I do not remember a single instance in which the Dabchick I was 

 watching, did not re- appear after diving," adding in a note, "I speak of 

 course of experiments made when the state of the weeds was such as both 

 to permit me to make them with certainty, and at the same time give the 

 bird the option of remaining submerged, if it would;" and again, "I never 

 failed to see it again a few seconds afterwards." Yet in the following 

 page, 501, he says, "I could never get a second glimpse of the little diver 

 after he had once caught sight of me, which he was pretty sure to do, 

 at least as soon as I espied him. What became of him I was at a loss 

 to discover."— F. O. Morris, April 29th., 1856. 



In the edition of ^'Montagu's Ornithological Dictionary," for 1831, I 

 cannot find the Great Crested Grebe at all. The editor indeed gives that 

 name, but only as "a, name for the Loon;" and on referring to '^Loon," 

 we find, as might be expected, the Great Northern Diver described. Can 

 any one throw light on the subject? Also, he calls the Black Guillemot 

 the Guillemot, and describes the Guillemot by the trivial name of Willock. 

 — F. O. Morris. 



