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areas; on the contrary it is recommended that they 

 should remain the same until the demand for white 

 settlement becomes much greater. A larger staff of 

 Rangers is recommended, and a suggestion is thrown 

 out that better facilities should be offered the public, 

 more especially scientists, to visit these game sanc- 

 tuaries where most of our beautiful antelopes can be 

 seen under natural conditions. This and the final re- 

 commendation of the Commission, that the Reserves 

 should be ultimately and definitely created into a 

 National Park for all time is heartily endorsed. 



A. K. H. 

 Enquiries. 



(1) Professor Z. P. Metcalf of the North Carolina 

 State College of Agriculture and Engineering writes:-— 



I write to inquire whether it would be possible to 

 secure either by purchase or exchange species of 

 Homoptera belonging to the following families: 

 Cicadidae, Membracidae, Fulgoridae, Jassidae and 

 Cercopidae, either through your Institution or some one 

 in your vicinity. 



Mr. Levi W, Mengel. Director of the Reading Public 

 Museum and Art Gallery, Reading, Pa., U.S.A., writes 

 as follow^s: — 



I am interested in the diurnal lepidoptera of the world, 

 and I am writing to you as an entomologist asking you 

 if you can put me in communication with any person or 

 persons from whom I could purchase perfect specimens^ 

 from your locality, in papers. They do not need to be 

 named, just so that the exact locality is indicated and 

 the specimens perfect. 



We have access to the best libraries in America and 

 our own collection here contains about 85,000 specimens, 

 but we are desirous of obtaining many more of the 

 common material, which we use in the Museum's work. 



