190 [August, 



Arcliseology, and Industries of the district; in commemoration of the 12th Annual 

 Congress, 1907, of tlie South-Eastern Union of Scientific Societies. Woolwich : 

 Labour Representation Printing Company, Ltd. 1909. 



The well got-up volume of 526 pages under the above somewliat formidable 

 title is the result of a remarkable effort of local co-operation in scientific study, and 

 is the outcome of the visit of the South-Eastern Union of Scientific Societies to 

 Woolwich in 1907. While all the work of the various sections appears to be well, 

 if in some cases rather briefly, executed, the Zoological section (pp. 231 — 440), under 

 the able editorship of Mr. J. W. Tutt, aided by Mr. H. J. Turner as Secretary, is a 

 most valuable summary of our knowledge of the fauna of North-West Kent, era- 

 bodying as it does the researches and observations of many of our best field natu- 

 ralists for a long series of years. In the Insecta the lists of Coleoptera (over 1350 

 species) and of Hemiptera, by that excellent worker Mr. W. West, of Greenwich, with 

 brief notes on the habitat and localities of each species, call for special commenda- 

 tion ; and even more complete and detailed is that of the Lepidoptera, for which 

 Mr. Turner is responsible, aided by a large number of active collectors and ob- 

 servers. Brief lists of the Diptera and Odonata are also included, but we regret 

 the absence of any enumeration of the Orthoptem and Hymenoptera. A full index 

 of the genera, &c , is an excellent feature of the work, which will form an invaluable 

 book of reference to local students of Natural Science, and will appeal to a much 

 wider circle. 



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William H. Edwards died at his residence, at Coalburgh, Virginia, U.S.A., 

 on April 14th last, at the venerable age of 87 years. In early life Mr. Edwards 

 made his mark as a traveller by a journey to the Amazon Valley, and his brightly 

 written little book, " A Voyage up the River Amazons, including a Residence at 

 Para" (London, John Murray, 1847), at once achieved a great success, and is still 

 one of the most readable and interesting descriptions of that wonderful region. 

 In his recently published " Life," Dr. A. R. Wallace tells us that it was the perusal 

 of this book, with its graphic descriptions of the flora and fauna, and its pleasing 

 account of the people, that determined Mr. Bates and himself to undertake their 

 memorable expedition to the Amazon Valley. As an entomologist, Mr. Edwards's 

 monument is his great work on " The Butterflies of North America," the parts of 

 which, frequently noticed in previous numbers of this Magazine, were issued be- 

 tween the years 1868 and 1897. The complete work, in three quarto volumes, 

 comprises what is " probably the most important faunistic work on Butterflies that 

 has ever appeared," and we would add that in very few if any books of its kind 

 have the illustrations reached so high a standard of artistic excellence and fidelity 

 to nature. 



The South London Entomological and Natural History Society : 



Thursday, June lOth, 1909. — Mr. W. J. Kaye, F.E.S., Vice-President, in the Chair. 



Mr. Stanley Edwards exhibited specimens of the Centipede, Scolopendra 



