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Museum, containing the great collections which the University owes 

 in the first instance to the generosity of its founder more than sixty 

 years ago, and which, under the first " Hope Professor," the renowned 

 Entomologist J. O. Westwood, and his pupil and successor now pre- 

 siding at the Congress, has developed into one of the finest and most 

 extensive series of insects of all Oi-ders of the world. The traditions 

 of the University, in one of whose Colleges, Wadham, the Eoyal 

 Society may be said to have had its cradle 250 years ago, also added 

 to the appropriateness of Oxford as a rendezvous for men of science. 

 Professor Poulton concluded an exceedingly interesting address, which 

 was heartily applauded, with a detailed account of the distribution, 

 polymorphism, geographical modifications, and results of breeding 

 experiments of Papilio dardanns, illustrated by the specimens in the 

 Hope Department, which form by far the finest series of this wonder- 

 ful African butterfly at present in existence. 



In the sectional meetings, a large number of papers of first-class 

 importance and interest were read. Of these we may specially men- 

 tion " Nature Reserves," by the Hon. N. Charles Rothschild ; " Some 

 Entomological Problems in the West Indies," by Sir D. Morris, on 

 behalf of W. G. Ballou ; " Die Differenzierung der zoogeographischen 

 Elemeute der Kontinente," by H. J. Kolbe ; " The Silk of Spiders and 

 its Uses," by Prof. J. H. Comstock ; " Messrs. C. A. Wiggins' and 

 Dr. Carpenter's researches in Mimicry in the forest Butterflies of 

 Uganda," by Prof. E. B. Poulton ; "The Colour-groups of Hawaiian 

 Wasps," by Dr. R. C. L. Perkins ; " Scent-Organs in the Lepidoptera," 

 by Dr. P. A. Dixey ; " The Phylogenetic Significance of the Develop- 

 ment of the Butterfly Wing," by J. Van Bemmelen ; " The necessary 

 investigation with regard to Insect and Fungus Enemies of Plants, 

 preliminary to Legislation," by A. G. L. Rogers ; " Die Geographische 

 Verbreitung der Insekten in ihrer Beziehung zu Phylogenie und 

 Palaeontologie," by Prof. A. Handlirsch ; " Travels of an Entomolo- 

 gist in Eastern Africa," by S. A. Neave ; " On the fovmding of 

 Colonies by Ants," by H. St. J. Donisthorpe and W. C. Crawley 

 (illustrated by living specimens) ; " Observations on the Central 

 American Acacia Ants," by W. M. Wheeler ; " How to kill that Ply," 

 by F. A. Lowe ; " Ueber fossilen Termiten," by Baron K. von Rosen ; 

 " Progress in knowledge of the Odonata from 1895 to 1912," by Philip 

 P. Calvert ; " The Order Thysanoptera, &c.," by R. S. Bagnall ; " How 

 does the Insect see the World," by Prof. Adalbert Seitz, &c., &c. 



