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any decided views on this question, but from the opinions cited and 

 the instances adduced, it might possibly be felt tj3at the interpretation 

 of these activities is perhaps too much in terms of human conscious- 

 ness. The fact that man possesses five separate avenues wliereby the 

 external world may excite such apjiropriate nervous action as can be 

 transmuted by the brain into distinct consciousness, does not in any 

 way ])r('clude the assumption, that the Insecta, which are doubtless 

 the last evolutionary phase of the Arthropoda, inay possess quite 

 other, or more numerous methods, by which external influences, 

 necessarily unknown to our experience, may stimulate their nervous 

 system. Thus Henri Bergson, the philosopher who has supplied the 

 jnodern world with a new conception of Life, as is well known, con- 

 siders Instinct and Intelligence to be quite distinct vital phenomena, 

 and not that the former is merelj- an incomplete or undeveloped form 

 of the latter. As he says : — " These creatures (Hymenoptera) repre- 

 sent the culminating point of a progressive evolution of instinct. 

 Their marvellous actions can only be explained by supposing that 

 instinct is a cpiite different and, in a certain manner, opposite mode of 

 mental activity to that by which we apprehend reality." But it is 

 obvious that anything like an adequate consideration of such a subject 

 as this is quite out of place in a brief review of a book on ants, and we 

 only allude to it to show into what wide fields of speculation, and even 

 philosophy, a single chapter in this most excellent work might lead 

 us. As a whole the work brings our knowledge of the British Ants up 

 to a point which leaves nothing to be added, and we can only wish for 

 it that publicity which Mr. Donisthorpe's treatment of his subject 

 deserves. 



(g> BIT U AR Y. 



Colonel Neville Manders, D.D.M.S., F.Z.S., F.E.S. 



It is with no conventional expression of regret that we record the 

 death of Colonel Neville Manders, who, as we shortly announced in 

 our last issue, was killed in the Dardanelles in August. He was well 

 known to entomologists who attend the meetings of the Entomological 

 Society of London, and his genial manner and attractive personality 

 must make his death to many others, as it is to the writer of this 

 notice, the loss of a real friend. 



He was both by birth and education a Marlburian, having been 

 born at Marlborough in 1859, the youngest son of Major T. Manders, 

 and educated at the College. He joined the Army i\ledical Service in 

 1884, and saw active .'-ervice in Egypt the following year, and again in 

 Burmah two years later. He was afterwards stationed in the Shan 

 States, at Rawal Pindi, at Colombo, and in the Mauritius, as well as 

 holding appointments at home, at Aldershot and at the Curragh Camp 

 in Ireland amongst other places, and had also made holiday excursions 

 in such widely ditl'erent localities as Switzerland and Java, and was 

 finally appointed, at the end of 1918, to the Deputy-Dn-ectorship of 

 the Medical Service in Egypt, a position which he held till the begin- 

 of the present year, when he was appointed to the Headquarters Stafi" 

 of the Australian and New Zealand forces, with whom he proceeded to 

 the Dardanelles. 



His interest in Entomology began in early boyhood, and only 



