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@URRENT NOTES. 



During the past month we visited the Annual Exhibition of the 

 Royal Photographic Society of Great Britain, held at Prince's Skating 

 Club, W. Our attention was mainly directed to the Sections devoted 

 to Natural History and Scientific Photography. These contained 

 some of the most interesting and most successful work as of course 

 might be expected when we mention such familiar names as those of 

 Hugh Main, B.Sc, F.E.S., A. E. Tonge, F.E.S., A. H. Hamm, 

 F.N.E.S., C. W.Colthrup, A. W. Dennis, and James Ward, F.E.S., as 

 being in the list of exhibitors. 



Mr. Hugh Main's exhibit consisted of a series of prints illustrating 

 the Life History of the beautiful and delicate lace-wing fly, Chnjsopa 

 flava, together with a series showing the larva (ventral and dorsal 

 views), pupa (ventral and dorsal views), and the imago of the musk 

 beetle, Aromia moschata ; Mr. A. E. Tonge had illustrated the Life- 

 cj'cle of Apatura iris: Mr. A. H. Hamm had a series of prints to show 

 the resting position and the protective resemblance attained by 

 Bri/ophila nmralis and B.perla: and Mr. C. W. Colthrup contributed 

 a series of photographs of the resting attitudes of several species of 

 moths. It is difficult to say which were the most successful of these, 

 they were all beyond criticism and each exhibitor maintained his high 

 standard of excellence in his own particular line of work. 



But why, Oh ! why were these beautiful productions relegated to a 

 quite subordinate and bad position in the rooms ? Why should such 

 delicate works be hung in a very dark remote corner where the shadow 

 of the electric light made it well-nigh impossible even with gymnastic 

 efforts to see sufficiently well to fully appreciate them ? We hope 

 that on another occasion those responsible for the hanging will 

 recognise the fact that there is nothing nebulous about Natural History 

 Photography, it will stand the best of lighting, and in future may such 

 excellent work receive better recognition from the Committee. 



We had almost forgotten to mention the excellent photograph of 

 one of our best known London natural history workers, that of Fred 

 Enoch, Esq., F.L.S., F.E.S.,F.R.H.S., of which a capital reproduction 

 was given in the illustrated catalogue of the exhibition. — H.E.P. 



In the March number of the Canadian Entomologist, L. W. Swett, 

 of Boston, has begun a series of papers on the genus Hijdriomena, 

 which includes our species of Hypsi petes, but in America has a much 

 more extended significance than our British genus is considered to 

 comprise. In the May number F. H. Wolley Dod continues his valuable 

 notes on the Lepidoptera of that little known area Alberta, and A. 

 Gibson of Ottawa, commences a series of Studies in the Life-histories 

 of Canadian Noctttidae. 



An Illustrated Descriptire Catalocjue of the Coleoptera or Beetles 

 {exclusire of the RhijncJtopIiora) known to occur in Indiana, has just been 

 sent to us by the author, Professor W. L. Blatchley, of Indianapolis, 

 U.S.A. In the libraries of some of our London Societies we have 

 often noted the row of bulky volumes issued by the Department of 

 Geology and Natural Resources (including Natural History) of Indiana, 

 containing a vast amount of facts, results of surveys, details of experi- 

 mental work, possibilities of natural resources, as well as most compre- 

 hensive reports on "Mammals," "Reptiles and Batrachians," "Butter- 



