18 THE entomologist's RECORD. 



the Service Brigade, while Mr. W. A. Bagnall is a Captain in the Dur- 

 ham Light Infantry. Under these circumstances Mr. Bagnall has been 

 compelled to leave Oxford and take up his old duties in Sunderland. 



In the terrible calamity which happened to the steamship " Empress 

 of Ireland," Entomology lost a splendid worker in the death of Mr. H. 

 H. Lyman, who with his wife was comin-g to Europe. Only the night 

 before his fatal voyage he was present at a meeting of the Royal 

 Society in Montreal. An account of his life and work has been 

 promised. 



The Nominations for Officers and Council of the Entomological 

 Society of London for the ensuing session, 1915-16, are as follows : — 

 Presi(fent: The Hon. N. C. Rothschild, M.A., F.Z.S. Treasurer: 

 Albert Hugh Jones. Secretaries : Commander James J. Walker, M.A., 

 R.N., F.L.S., and The Rev. George Wheeler, M.A., F.Z.S. Librarian: 

 George Charles Champion, A.L.S. Council : George T. Bethune- 

 Baker, F.L.S., F.Z.S., E. A. Butler, B.A., B.Sc, E. A. Cockayne, 

 M.A., M.D., M.R.C.P., J. E. Collin, F.Z.S., H. Eltringham, M.A., 

 D.Sc, F.Z.S., C. J. Gahan, M.A., E. Ernest Green, G. B. Loncrstaff, 

 M.A., M.D., G. Meade- Waldo, M.A., G. W. Nicholson, M.A., M.D., 

 H. Rowland-Brown, M.A., A. E. Tonge. 



The List of Members nominated for the Officers and Council of the 

 South London Entomological and Natural History Society for the 

 ensuing session, 1915-16, is as follows ■.—President: B. H. Smith, B.A., 

 F.E.S. Vice-Presidents: A. E. Gibbs, F.L.S., F.E.S., and A. E. 

 Tonge, F.E.S. Treasurer: T. W. Hall, F.E.S. Librarian: A. W. 

 Dods. Curator: W. West (Greenwich). Editor of Proceedings: 

 Edward Step, F.L.S. Hon. Secretaries: Stanley Edwards, F.L.S., 

 F.E.S., F.Z.S., and Henry J. Turner, F.E.S. Council: R. Adkin, 

 F.E.S., S. R. Ashby, F.E.S., J. Piatt Barrett, F.E.S., Dr. T. A. 

 Chapman. F.Z.S., B. S. Curwen, W. J. Kaye, F. E. S., D. R. Morford, 

 N. D. Riley, F.E.S., and W. G. Sheldon, F.E.S. 



Now that magazines and other publications no longer arrive from 

 the Continent of Europe, there is much less entomological doing to 

 chronicle in our Current Notes. 



In the September magazines the following items may be of interest. 

 (1) A summary of the Destructive Insects of New Jersey given in the 

 Canadian Entomologist gives the following table. 



The insects considered destructive are those against which measures 

 of control must at some time or other be directed. 



(2) In the Scottish Naturalist, Mr. Percy H. Grimshaw, after a lapse 

 of several years, has resumed his articles on " Diptera Scotica " and 

 deals with the species which appear to have been recorded from the 

 area of Scotland comprised in the Western Isles. 



