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he was a partner in the well kno^vn Liverpool firm of Homeopathic Chemists, 

 Messrs. Thompson and Capper. He was indeed one of the first promoters of 

 Homeopathy in Liverpool, and it was greatly owing to his efforts that the 

 Hahnemann Hospital was built, and of which he was Honorary Secretary for 

 fifty-seven years. He left several sons and daxighters, one of the latter of 

 whom, herself an enthusiastic natiiralist, is the wife of Dr. H. H. Corbett, the 

 well-known Doncaster Entomologist.^G.T.P. 



Societies. 



Lancashire and Cheshire Entomolooical Society : The Fourth Meeting 

 of the Session was held in the Eoyal Institution, Colquit Street, Liverpool, on 

 January 13th, 1912. 



A large niunber of interesting lantern slides were exhibited by Dr. Cotton, 

 Dr. Linne, and Mr. O. Whittaker. Dr. Linne's slides included many beautiful 

 coloured examples taken by the Lumiere and other colour processes. 

 Mr. Mansbridge exhibited a series of Folia chi, showing the usvial range of 

 melanic variation, from the Huddersfield district; and also, on behalf of 

 Mr. A. W. Boyd, a case of Micro-lepidoptera from various localities in Cheshire, 

 among them being Mixodia schulziana, Sciaphila hyhridana, Sophronia 

 parenthesella, Chelaria hubnerella, Argyresthia pygmaeella, Peronea comariana, etc. 

 — Oscar Whittaker and Wm. Mansbridge, Hon. Sees. 



The South London Entomological and Natural History Society : 

 Thursday, January 11th, 1912. — Mr. A. Sich, F.E.S., Vice-President, in the Chair. 



Messrs. C. G. Gahan, M.A., F.E.S., of the British Musevun (N.H.), and 

 Mr. N. S. Sennett, F.E.S., of S. Kensington, were elected Members. 



Mr. A. W. Buckstone exhibited series of Hyhernia defoliaria from several 

 localities, and stated that variation had considerably increased in the last 30 

 years, and that around London the type form was much less frequent. 

 Mr. H. Moore, a huge Tree-cricket, Eimiegalodon blanchardi, from Borneo, whose 

 tegmina resemble leaves. Mr. E. Adkin gave additional notes on the 

 " Lepidoptera of a London Garden," exhibiting Plusia moneta, Monopis rusticella, 

 Gracilaria syringella, Argyresthia goedartella, and Gelechia malvella. 

 Mr A. E. Gibbs, an aberration of Pyrameis atalanta bred from Vizzavona, 

 Corsica, in which the diagonal red bands of the fore-wings and the marginal 

 band of the hind- wings are more or less pink, and some areas very much paler 

 than usual. Mr. Blenkarn, five specimens of Anthrocera trifolii, v. conflueiis, 

 from Withycombe and Horsley, and various species of Coleoptera, including 

 Bledius secernendus, recently announced as new to Britain by Dr. Joy. 

 Mr. H. Main, larvae of the Glow-worm reai'ed from eggs, and also a larva of 

 Ocypus olens. The Reports of the Society's Field Meetings during the past year 

 were communicated by Messrs. Edwards, Gibbs, Kaye, Priske, Tonge, and Turner. 

 — Hy. J. Turner, Hon. Secretary. 



