236 THE entomologist's record. 



A curious method of procedure was adopted at the delegates' meeting 

 which certainly, to say the least, should not have been allowed. One 

 member " was asked to bring together a small committee, who should 

 recommend to the delegates nominations for the council," to fill three 

 irregular vacancies on that body. This gentlemen subsequently 

 proposed himself and two others who were elected pro forma. It is 

 gratifying to see that the Union is at last commencing to sectionize its 

 activities. At the instance of Dr. W. Martin, Prof. G. S. Boulger and 

 others, a meeting of botanists was convened to " consider the co- 

 ordination and re-invigoration of the Botanical work of the Union." 

 This resulted in a Section being formed, with Committees and Sub- 

 committees for special work. May it be suggested that a similar 

 Section be formed for Zoology. This could well be done in 1915 at 

 Brighton, a meeting place which will be quite accessible to members 

 living in the South-Eastern area, of whom so many are interested in 

 one branch or another of this subject. In the Loan Museum one 

 large room was devoted to the exhibition of the whole of Mr. Percy 

 Bright's wonderful collection of British Lepidoptera, Mimicry in 

 Insects by Mr. Parkinson-Curtis, Dimorphism, seasonal and sexual, in 

 insects by Mr. Tatchell, etc. It was a privilege to see the great 

 number of wonderful aberrations accumulated in the first named 

 exhibit. The third part of the volume is taken up with the Presi- 

 dential Address and the Papers contributed to Congress. " Science 

 and Life," by P. Chalmers Mitchell, M.A., President, " Vegetation of 

 the Bournemouth District," by W. Munn Rankin, M.Sc, " Scenery of 

 Bournemouth and its Geological History," by Wm. T. Ord, F.G.S., 

 and "Flora of the New Forest," by Rev. J. E. Kelsall, are of more or 

 less interest to entomologists. Sir Ronald Ross gave an address with 

 lantern illustrations on " Some points in connection with Tropical 

 Medicine." It seems a pity that the papers, which have been published 

 in this volume, are not illustrated with some of the large number of 

 excellent diagrams which were shown during the course of their 

 delivery. This valuable report is an admirable monument to the 

 untiring and able work of its Editor, Dr. Wm. Martin, M.A., F.S.A., 

 the Hon. Secretary of the Society, and, in the interest of the Union's 

 membership, it is a pity that from unexplained circumstances some 

 at least of the members and associates are not to receive their copy 

 of the Report.— H.J.T. 



Transactions of the Cardiff Naturalists Society, vol. xlvi., 

 1913 (pp. 161 + 6, and 8 plates. Price 5s.) — This year's volume has, 

 as is now usual, about one-third of its pages taken up with natural 

 history matters, of which our colleague Mr. J. R. le B. Tomlin, M.A., 

 F.E.S., occupies thirty-one with his second instalment of the " Cata- 

 logue of the Coleoptera of Glamorgan." The sections of this order 

 dealt with, comprise many of the smaller species, the Tachijporidae, 

 Staphylinidae, Stenidae, Oiiialidae, etc., and in many cases the author 

 points out, " it is, unfortunately, impossible to ascertain to what 

 species on our present lists the older records refer." He goes on to 

 point out that not only is there the possibility of misidentification in 

 the first instance with often two or more conceptions under the same 

 specific name, but " we have the extensive segregations of critical 

 species in the last 20 or 30 years split up into many species mainly 

 on differences of the genitalia." Archeology, Geology, and Meteoro- 

 logical Records occupy most of the remainder of the volume. — H.J.T. 



