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A IIEQUEST FOR DOKSET KECORDS OF COLEOPTERA. 



The Dorset Field Club have asked me to collect records and publish a list of 

 the Coleoptera of the county. I should, therefore, be thankful for assistance from 

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MEETINGS OF SOCIETIES. 



ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON, 11, Chandos Street, Cavendish 

 Square, W.— May 5th, June 2nd, 1920. 



The Chair will be taken at 8 o'clock in the evening precisely. 



The Library is open daily from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. (except on Saturdays, when it 

 is closed at 2 p.m.), and until 10 p.m. on Meetmg nights. 



THE SOUTH LONDON ENTOMOLOGICAL AND NATURAL HISTORY 

 SOCIETY, Hibernia Chambers, London Bridge. The Second & Fourth Thursdays 

 in each month, at 7 p.m. The lantern will be at the disposal of Members for the 

 exhibition of slides. 



THE LONDON NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY, which meets at 7 p.m. 

 on the 1st and 3rd Tuesdays in each month, at Room 20, Salisbury House, Fmsbury 

 Circus, E.C., will be glad to welcome at its Meetings any French or Belgian entom- 

 ologists now staying in this coimtry, and to give them the benefit of its library and 

 collections. Communications should be addressed to the Secretary, Salisbury- 

 House, E.C. 



Hon. Sec. : J. Ross, 18, Queen's Grove Road, Chingford, N.E. 



Ghingford Branch. The Chingford Local Branch meets at the Avenue Cafe, 

 opposite Chingford Station, at 8 p.m., on the 2nd Monday in each month. 



CHICHESTER AND WEST SUSSEX NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY.— 

 This Society has recently been reorganized, and proposes to make Reference Collec- 

 tions and to have Monthly Excursions during the Summer. Will anyone who wishes 

 to join kindly communicate with the 



Hon. Sec. -. Rev. C. E. Tottenham, Summersdale, Chichester. 



