THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 345 



THE INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF ENTOMOLOGY. 



The Second Internaiional Congress of Entomology was held at 

 Oxford (England), from August 5th to 15th, the first Congress having 

 been held at Brussels in 1910. It was attended by representative ento- 

 mologists from Australia, Belgium, Canada, Borneo, British East Africa^ 

 Chili, Egypt, France, Germany, Holland, Hungary, Luxenbourg, Sand- 

 wich Islands, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey and the United States, 

 beside.s a large number from Great Britian and Ireland. 



As representative of the Canadian Government and a delegate fromt 

 the Entomological Society of Ontario, I sailed from Quebec on July 26th,^ 

 but an unfortunate collision at sea necessitated my return and re-embarka- 

 tion from New York, and on this account I missed the proceedings of the 

 first day, during which the President, Prof. E. B. Poulton, F.R.S., de- 

 livered his presidential address. 



In welcoming the entomologists of all nations, the President alluded 

 to the suitability of Oxford as the meeting place of such a gathering, and 

 referred to the celebrated meeting of the British Association in i860 in 

 the same place, when Huxley made his celebrated and crushing retort tO' 

 Wilberforce's attempt to throw ridicule on the evolutionary doctrines 

 recently set forth by Darwin and valiantly championed by Huxley. Prof. 

 Poulton traced the history of the Hope Department of Entomology at 

 Oxford, of which he has charge, and referred to the great work of Prof. 

 Westwood, his predecessor and former teacher; He described a splendid 

 exhibit of the polymorphic African Papilio dardanus. Tracing its geogra- 

 phical variations and illustrating the gradual development of mimicry by 

 the female, the polymorphism of the same sex and the proportions of the 

 different mimetic forms hatching out from the eggs of a single female. 



The meetings of the Congress were general and sectional. At the 

 various sectional meetings, which were usually held at the same time, 

 economic and medical entomology, evolution and bionomics, mimicry and 

 distribution, systematic entomology and nomenclature and morphology- 

 were discussed. It was naturally impossible for one to attend all the 

 sections or to hear all the papers which one would have wished to hear. 

 On this account, therefore, I shall refer only to certain of the papers which 

 I was able to hear. In any case, space would forbid the writing of a more 

 lengthy account, which will be given in the ofiicial reports of the Congress. 



Mr. G. T. Bethune-Baker and Rev. G. Wheeler brought forward and' 

 discussed a proposal from the ^entomological Society of London for the 

 formation of the International and National Committees to deal with the- 



