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cieties of different countries to the end that National Commit- 

 tees on Nomenclature may be formed. The International 

 Committee, in co-operation with the National Committees, is 

 to consider the opinions and views of entomologists on all 

 questions of the nomenclature of insects and what modifica- 

 tions of the rules of the International -Commission on Zoologi- 

 cal Nomenclature are necessary to meet the needs of Entomol- 

 ogy ; it is to communicate its conclusions to the Secretary of the 

 same Commission and to take such steps as will insure repre- 

 sentation of Entomology on that Commission. 



The secretary of the Executive Committee (Dr. Burr) re- 

 ported that the total number of members of this Second Con- 

 gress was 20 1 (40 of this total being life members), of which 

 172, representing 23 nationalities, were present. The corre- 

 sponding figures for the First Congress, at Brussels, 1910, were 

 201, 147 and 24. 



President Poulton then delivered a farewell address, thank- 

 ing all those who in one way or another had aided to make this 

 Congress the success which all felt it to be, those present sig- 

 nifying their approval by continued applause. The President 

 then received the thanks of the Congress and the General 

 Meeting adjourned. A photograph of the Congress in Wad- 

 ham College quadrangle was taken at 5 p. m. 



In the evening, at 7.30, a largely attended banquet 

 was held in the Dining Hall of Wadham College, dating from 

 the early I7th century, and portraits of four members of this 

 college who were founders of the Royal Society of London, 

 with those of other famous alumni, looked down upon us from 

 the walls. Appropriate toasts and brief speeches in four lan- 

 guages brought this enjoyable festival to a close. 



Mention should be made of the exhibit of insects which 

 were displayed in different rooms of the museum from time 

 to time during the Congress. These were Pierinae, by Dr. 

 F. A. Dixey; The African species of the genus Acraea 

 (Lepid.), by Mr. H. Eltringham; Insects and their prey with 

 special reference to the courtship of the Empidae, by Prof. 

 Poulton and Mr. A. H. Hamm ; Mimetic Groups, by Prof. 

 Poulton ; New British Thysanura ; Collembola, Thysanoptera, 



