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A notable feature of the Congress was the treatment of the 

 vexed question of N"onienclature, introduced on August 6th by the 

 Eev. Gr. Wheeler and Mr. G. T. Bethune-Baker, in a joint paper em- 

 bodying the proposal of the Entomological Society of London for the 

 formation of International and National Committees, with unofficial 

 suggestions as to desii-able restrictions. Papers dealing with this 

 subject were read or communicated by M. Charles Oberthiir (" Pas 

 de bonne figure a I'appui d'lme description, pas de nom valable "), 

 Mr. L. B. Prout, Capt. Ch. Kerremans, and M. Ernest Olivier, and 

 eventually, after a most interesting discussion, the proposals contained 

 in the first paper were adopted in substance by the Congress. 



Among the exhibits on view in the Hope Department and adjoin- 

 ing rooms were the exceedingly fine series of the African species of 

 Acrxa, arranged by Mr. H. Eltringham in accordance with his 

 splendid MonograjDh of these butterflies forming Part I of this year's 

 Transactions of the Entomological Society ; the Pierinie, arranged by 

 Dr. Dixey ; Mimetic Croups of Butterflies, by Prof. Poulton ; and 

 " Insects and their Prey, with special reference to the Courtship of 

 the Empidje," by Mr. A. H. Hamm, who also showed on August 9th 

 a very beautiful set of lantern slides from his own photographs of 

 insects in resting attitudes in their natural surroundings. 



The sole drawback to the complete enjoyment of the Congress 

 was the persistently wet and stormy weather which prevailed without 

 a break throughout the week, and was especially bad on the afternoon 

 of the 7th, which had been set apart for excursions in the neighbour- 

 hood of Oxford. These excursions, to Nuneham, by the kind 

 invitation of the Et. Hon. L. V. Harcourt, M.P., and to Bagley Wood, 

 by that of the President and Fellows of St. John's College, were 

 well attended, and at the latter place a few interesting Micro-Lepi- 

 doptera and other insects were observed in spite of very unfavourable 

 conditions. 



At the final business Meeting on the afternoon of August 9th it 

 was decided that the next Congress should be held at Vienna in 1915, 

 under the presidency of Professor Anton Handlirsch of the Kaiserlich- 

 kijuiglich Naturhistorische Hofinuseum. A highly successful banquet 

 in the hall of Wadham College, on the same evening, attended by about 

 150 Members, and a most enjoyable visit on the following day to the 

 Zoological Museum at Tring, where over 100 Members partook of the 

 generous hospitality of the Hon. Walter Eothschild and his brother, 

 brought a memorable reunion of Entomologists to a close. In large 



