

PREFACE. 



We have lived, and critics tell us we have lived well. That 

 opinion is for our subscribers to acknowledge. The year has been for 

 us an eventful and anxious one. It has been our earnest desire that 

 the Magazine should continue on the same lines as during the last 

 twenty-two years, when under the talented and beloved care of the 

 late Mr. J. W. Tutt. We have ever kept before us the lines of Mrs. 

 Gaskell : 



" Dying he shall never die, 



To the dust his dust we give. 



In our hearts his heart shall live." 



May his spirit ever live in the magazine and may it continue to fill the 

 place it filled of yore. 



Everyone and each one of the editorial staff have been most loyal 

 for the welfare of the paper, while many other gentlemen have given 

 their aid ungrudgingly. The list of contributors has increased, the 

 number of plates is quite normal, and from communications we note 

 that the matter has been most acceptable to our readers for its varied 

 and interesting character. 



The great feature of the volume has been the special " Tutt " 

 number in Ma.y, probably a unique issue in the annals of entomological 

 literature. For its success we are particularly indebted to those gentle- 

 men outside our staff, who contributed of their best, the kindly notices 

 of him we have lost. 



In the controversy of the year, when an aggressive attempt was 

 made to pi'event for ever the necessary extension of the British 

 Museum (Natural History) our efforts were on the side we knew our 

 late Editor would have forcefully taken. To the success of the 

 opposition to this nefarious project, the splendid work of the Rev. G. 

 Wheeler, both in the magazine and in other ways, in no small degree 

 contributed. In fact, during the whole year Mr. Wheeler has devoted 

 himself in season and out of season unsparingly to the interests of our 

 success. 



In wishing our readers the Compliments of the Season may we 

 urge tliem one and all to reciprocate by sending us notes of their 

 collecting during the coming season. H. J. Turner. 



