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The London Society is the oldest of the great entomological societies, 

 excepting the Entomological Society of France, which was founded a 

 year earlier. Its Transactions and Proceedings have been largely used 

 by American entomologists, and many of the latter, when traveling 

 abroad, have been welcomed at the meetings of the Society and have 

 cordially been given the use of the magnificent library. L. O. HOWARD. 



J. H. Williamson Collecting in Florida II. 



Additional particulars of Mr. Jesse H. Williamson's collecting in 

 Florida have come to hand since the note published in the NEWS for 

 May, page 152. On April 15th he left Miami, where he collected but 

 one day, and arrived at Enterprise. Here, the hotel having closed 

 the preceding day, he obtained room and board .with a private family 

 and speaks very highly of his accommodations. Collecting began in 

 the yard of this house and was extended to Lake Monroe, several creeks 

 which were "followed back into a heavy humid forest," other lakes, 

 ponds and swamps. "Am getting accustomed to the startled grunt and 

 sudden stampede of razor-back hogs in the bush." By April 21st he 

 had taken at least 12 additional species of Odonata not met with in the 

 previous weeks, and on April 26th, still at Enterprise, he estimated his 

 total collection of this order in Florida at 53 species and 4100 specimens. 



The John Macoun Memorial Fund. 



At the request of naturalists generally throughout Canada, the Ottawa 

 Field Naturalists' Club has decided to receive subscriptions for a por- 

 trait of the late Professor John Macoun, naturalist of the Geological 

 Survey of Canada, who died at Sidney, British Columbia, July 18, 1920. 

 The portrait will be painted by Mr. Franklin Brownell, of Ottawa, and 

 will be hung in the Victoria Memorial Museum, and the expenses in 

 connection therewith are estimated at about $700. Should the amount 

 be oversubscribed, arrangements may be made whereby those subscribing 

 above a certain sum, which cannot now be defined, will receive a repro- 

 duction of the painting. Subscriptions should be sent to Mr. Arthur 

 Gibson, Dominion Entomologist, Ottawa. 



A New Entomological Journal and in Austria! 



llerr Fritz Wagner, of Haizingergasse 4, Vienna XVIII, has sent 

 out a circular letter, dated March 24, 1921, stating that, considering the 

 delays in publication of entomological papers, he is planning the publi- 

 cation of a new journal, the Zcitschrift fiir Systematischc Insektenkunde, 

 excluding Coleopterology and Lepidopterology. Dr. Reinhold Meyer, of 

 Landsberg a. W., has agreed to act as editor. Provided 200 subscribers 

 are obtained, the subscription price will be 40 Marks for a volume of 

 six bimonthly numbers of 3-4 signatures (Bogen) each, with text fig- 

 ures and plates when practicable, in Germany and German 

 Austria. In countries like the United States, England, France. Italy, 

 Holland, Switzerland, with higher rates of exchange, an addition of 150 



