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of all his writings, in addition to a full formal biography of him. 

 This it is proposed to do in the April number. 



From the names on the front page of the cover it will be seen that 

 the editorial stall" of the magazine remain practically as they were, 

 except that there will be no titular editor as before, but that each will 

 take an active share in one part of the work or another, while Mr. Hy. 

 J. Turner will, for a time at least, act as Editorial Secretary, to whom 

 all matter for publication, original articles, material for examination, 

 books for review, exchange, etc., should be sent. Mr. H. St. J. Donis- 

 thorpe will, as before, be pleased to receive all matters relating to 

 Coleoptera, and Dr. Burr those relating to Orthoptera. Any of the 

 other members of the editorial staff will receive, consider and forward 

 contributions which it may be more convenient to give or send to them. 



It has been customary to send Reports of Societies to the Rev. C. 

 R. N. Burrows. We regret to say that latterly he has been in such 

 poor health, that all mental work has been a strain to him. Will 

 secretaries in future, and until further notice, kindly forward all 

 Reports of Meetings to the Editorial Secretary. 



We find that during the past year or two, there have not been by 

 any means the number of Exchange Lists in our advertising columns 

 which we would wish to see. We are quite sure that many of our 

 subscribers must have specimens to spare, and we are also certain that 

 their desiderata are numerous. May we ask that during the present 

 season our active younger readers will make use of this opportunity 

 and send us lists for insertion. Let them remember that the local 

 forms of many a cominon species are most interesting. 



We are informed that the collections of the late Editor, Mr. J. W. 

 Tutt, will be sold by auction in five separate sales during the next two 

 years, at intervals of at least three months between any two sales. 

 Probably the first sale will take place in April of the present year. 



The care and foresight of the late Mr. Dunning and his then 

 colleagues on the Council of the Entomological Society, in the drawing 

 up of the Bye-Laws of the Society, was admirably proved, by the 

 solution of^the most unusual position in which the Council was placed 

 by the death of the President-nominate, which occurred after the date 

 when it was allowable to send in nominations, but before the President 

 occupying the chair had delivered his address and actually vacated the 

 chair. 



At the last meeting of the Entomological Society it was announced 

 that the Rev. F. D, Morice had been nominated by the Council to fill 

 the office of President for the ensuing two years, Mr. Morice is an 

 ardent hyinenopterist and also a distinguished linguist, a combination 

 which is somewhat opportune at the present time. In the first place, 

 there was a general desire among the Fellows that a choice should be 

 made of one who was not a lepidopterist, and, in the second place, it 

 was felt that, in view of the forthcoiiiing International Congress of 

 Entomologists to be held at Oxford in 1912, the chair of the Society 

 should be occupied by one who, while in close touch with the Society, 

 would at the same time be able to take an active part in the Congress. 



As soon as the remaining MS. for the completion of the present 

 volume of; Britisli Lepidnptexi (vol. xi.), which the late Mr. J. W. 

 Tutt was engaged upon at the time of his death, is obtainable from 

 the executors, the Rev. G. Wheeler, Dr. Chapman, Mr. Stanley 



