370 THE CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST. 



I am indebted to Mr. Grossbeck for calling my attention to 

 Hulst's descriptions, as well as a note by Bruce (Ent. Amer., 3, 48), 

 to the effect that he bred the species from the egg of Galium. Pack- 

 ard gives Celastrus scandens, and it is evidently not very particular 

 about its food. 



THE SECOND INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF 

 ENTOMOLOGY. 



BY HENRY H. LYMAN, MONTREAL. 



I confess that it is with considerable diffidence that I approach 

 the above subject. Reports of the meeting have already been 

 published by Mr. H. Rowland-Brown in 'The Entomologist," and 

 by the Canadian Government representative. Dr. C. Gordon 

 Hewitt, in this journal, but there are certain aspects of the subject 

 which these gentlemen have not dwelt upon that appear to me, at 

 least, to be of considerable importance. 



I hope I am not wrong in assuming that the raison d'etre of an 

 international scientific congress is primarily to study the subject in 

 its international aspect, and to secure, as far as possible, co-opera- 

 tion among the scientists of all the countries represented, and that 

 this aspect should never be lost sight of. Yet, it appears to me, as 

 one who has attended both congresses so far held, that this aspect 

 was less in evidence at the Oxford meeting than at the one held two 

 years previously at Brussels; while the social aspect, which was 

 almost absent in Brussels, was very strongly developed. I fully 

 admit the agreeable nature and also the important character of the 

 social aspect, but I think there is a danger of overdoing it, and that 

 it should never be allowed to obscure the more serious business of the 

 gathering. 



These congresses being from now on held only every three years, 

 and, considering the very considerable expense incurred by govern- 

 ments and institutions in sending representatives to them, is it not 

 of the highest importance that they should not be merely very 

 pleasant reunions where highly interesting papers are read by emi- 

 nent scientists, and where afterwards the pipes of social peace are 

 smoked around the social board, but that the many pressing ques- 

 tions of international importance should be given first place and 

 some attempt made to solve them, instead of referring them to 

 committees from one congress to another, while every year confu- 

 sion, at least in nomenclature, is becoming worse confounded? It i& 

 quite true that some attempt was made by some authors to deal 

 with matters of international concern, but such attempts were few, 

 and, unfortunately, some of the ideas were crude. 



The programme, including the President's annual address,, 



December, 1912 



