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began his entomological work as a student of this order. He was made 

 a Fellow of the Eoyal Society in 1902, an honour nowadays rarely 

 conferred on an entomologist, owing to there being so much competition 

 for the few available Fellowships each year among those whose pro- 

 fessional work lies in other branches of scicence — especially applied 

 science. An excellent obituary notice (and photograph) is to be found 

 in the Ent. Mo. Mai/azine, on the editorial staff of which he has been 

 since 1880. 



Mr. C. 0. Waterhouse was elected unanimously to the vacancy 

 on the Business and Publication Committee of the Entomological 

 Society of London at the meeting of the Council held on March 2nd, 

 in the place of Mr. Edward Saunders, deceased. 



We regret to hear also, after a long and painful illness, of the 

 death of Harry McArthur, a professional collector of great acumen, 

 exceedingly well-informed, but of most modest and retiring disposition. 

 His decease took place on February 8th. He was 64 years of age. 



We hear that Mr. T. Bainbrigge-Fletcher has been appointed an 

 assistant at the Pusa Agricultural College, by the Indian Govern- 

 ment, and left for Calcutta about the commencement of March. There 

 must be unlimited opportunities for scientific entomological work in 

 India, and one expects great things from this appointment. There 

 have been many lepidopterists at work in India, but Mr. Fletcher's 

 well-known preference for certain groups of the micro-lepidoptera, and 

 his keenness in field observation, leads one to feel satisfied that, in 

 these directions, many new discoveries will be made in the immediate 

 future. 



At a Congregation held at Cambridge University, on February 17th, 

 the Vice-Chancellor (Dr. Mason, Master of Pembroke) presiding. Pro- 

 fessor W. Bateson (St. John's), the Hon. N. C. Rothschild (Trinity), 

 and Mr. H. Scott (Trinity) Avere appointed to represent the university 

 at the International Congress of Entomology to be held at Brussels in 

 Aueust. 



SOCIETIES. 



The Lancashire and Cheshire Entomological Society. — January 

 nth, 1910. — Mendel's theory of Inheritance.^ — Mr. C. F. Walker, 

 M.A., by means of some excellent lantern slides, gave a very lucid 

 and interesting account of Mendel's discovery, and also adverted 

 to the recent work which has been done by numerous investigators. 

 Mr. Walker mentioned the experiments of Messrs. Prout and Bacot 

 with AcidaUa viiiiidaria, instancing it as a case of " Blended 

 Inheritance," in which the Mendelian principle did not appear to 

 apply. HYDEfficiA cRiNANENsis IN England AND Ireland. — Mr. F. N. 

 Pierce exhibited a female specimen of Hydroecia rrinanejiais captured 

 at Bolton, Lanes., in 1897, by Mr. J.' E. R. Allen. This is the 

 first record for England. Mr. Allen has also recorded the species from 

 Enniskillen, Ireland. 



The South London Entomological and Natural History 

 Society. — January 21tJt, 1910. — Autumn Lepidoptera. — Mr. Tonge 

 and Mr. Colthrup exhibited long series of Hybernia aurantiaria, H. 

 defoliaria, and Hlmera pennaria, taken in the New Forest, November 

 17th-19th, 1909, where they were abundant in spite of the weather 

 being clear and frosty. Mr. Colthrup exhibited a Gonepfery.r rliamm, 

 found at the same time hybernating among holly. 



