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current financial year, and thus all arrears of publication and pay- 

 ment met before the new financial year began. Better luck, perhaps, 

 next time. It, perhaps, is not generally known by lepidopterists in 

 the provinces that books can be forwarded to Fellows : one is some- 

 what astonished at the large number of evidently good lepidopterists 

 who have not yet become Fellows ; we should be glad to hear from 

 any of our subscribers who can spare a guinea a year in support of the 

 society, and would like to join. 



The North London Natural History Society has removed its home 

 to the City (Salisbury House, Finsbury Circus, E.C.). The officers and 

 council for the year are : — President : L. 13. Prout, F.E.S. Vice- 

 Presidents : C. S. Nicholson, F.L.S. and L. J. Tremayne. Treasurer: 

 C. B. Smith. Librarian : A. B. Hornblower. Curators : J. E. 

 Gardner, J. 0. Brathwaite. Secretaries : R. W. Bobbins, S. W. 

 Bradley. Council: Stanley Austin, A. Bacot, F.E.S. , Mrs. R. W. 

 Robbins, and Mrs. C. B. Smith. 



At the Annual Meeting of the Lancashire and Cheshire Entomo- 

 logical Society, held on December 20th, 1909, an address was delivered 

 by Dr. H. H. Corbett, the retiring Vice-President, who took for his 

 subject — " The evolution of the natural order Insecta." The lecturer, 

 by means of lantern slides and diagrams, described how possibly the 

 great family of insects had arisen. Beginning with the simplest animal 

 organisms, and proceeding to others more and more complex. Dr. 

 Corbett constructed a tree showing the probable genealogy of moths, 

 butterflies, and beetles. The address was greatly appreciated by those 

 present, and, at the close, a vote of thanks was proposed by Mr. R. 

 Newstead, which was carried with acclamation. 



The following gentlemen were elected officers and council of the 

 Lancashire and Cheshire Entomological Society for the current year, 

 CT3. .—President : S. J. Capper, F.E.S. Vice-Presidents: E. R. Bankes, 

 M.A., F.E.S., Robert Newstead, M.Sc, F.E.S., W. J. Lucas, B.A., 

 F.E.S., C. E. Stott, Claude Morley, F.E.S., P. F. Tinne, M.A., M.B. 

 Hon. Treasurer : J. Cotton, M.R.C.S. Hon. Secretaries : H. R. 

 Sweeting, M.A., William Mansbridge, F.E.S. Hon. Librarian : 

 F. N. Pierce, F.E.S. Council: E. G. Bayford, F.E.S., W. D. Harrison, 

 W. A. Tyerman, E. J. B. Sopp, F.R.Met.S., William Webster, 

 M.R.S.A.I., George Arnold, F.E.S., William Mallinson, W. T. Mellows, 

 L. H. Lister, G. M. Taylor, M.A., J. H. Leyland. 



There has recently been a discussion in the Tiines re the transfer of 

 the " Walsingham collection " of micro-lepidoptera to the Natural 

 History Museum, South Kensington, in which Sir E. Ray Lankester 

 animadverts on the action of the Trustees of the British Museum 

 in accepting" the original deed of gift drawn up by Lord Walsingham 

 . . . . without consulting" him (Sir E. Ray Lankester), although 

 they have been advised by Sir E. Maunde Thompson to accept it, 

 Sir E. Ray Lankester objecting on the ground that "the expenditure 

 demanded by Lord Walsingham on the part of the Trustees (in provid- 

 ing a curator, attendant, special rooms, etc.), represented a sum the 

 annual value of which exceeded the market value of the collection." 



But the point of the value of the collection to those who can make 

 scientific use of it lies just in this condition, and every lepidopterist 

 who knows the ways of the Museum will recognise that Lord 

 Walsingham's conditions are really as important to science as the gift 



