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zione in 1908, by the First Commissioner of Works, they proved to be 

 adequate except in the matter of space for exhibits. The meeting-room 

 on the ground floor was reserved for lectures, of which two were 

 arranged — (1) at 9 p.m. " Recent Discoveries in Insect Mimicry," by 

 Professor E. B. Poulton ; (2) at 10 p.m. " The Tiger Beetle {Cicindela 

 campestris) " by Mr. F. Enock ; both were illustrated with lantern 

 slides. The names of the lecturers are a sufficient guarantee for the 

 interest and value of what they had to say. 



The Council Chamber on the first floor was devoted to refreshments, 

 and was an ideal room for the purpose on account of its size — none of 

 those perilous journeys through the crowd with a full cup in each 

 hand, none of those unpleasant illustrations of the proverb " there's 

 many a slip " on one's own corpore vili. Instead of such discomfort 

 there was plenty of room and ample opportunity to sit down if one 

 were so minded. The exhibits were arranged in the Library and on 

 one side of the Library Gallery, and in the former the cases belonging 

 to the Linnean Society, containing many of their unique relics, made 

 no inconsiderable addition to the interest of the evening. 



Mr. Enock exhibited new species of British Mijmaridae under the 

 microscope as well as photomicrographs of the same. Mr. G. R. 

 Baldock, living Stick Insects. Mr. L. W. Newman, living larvae and 

 pupas of British lepidoptera ; while Mr. Bacot's exhibit of live fleas 

 with their ova, larvae and cocoons attracted a good deal of attention. 

 By way of contrast with these, we had the Hon. N. C. Rothschild's 

 and Dr. Jordan's gigantic model of the tropical plague flea {Xenopsijlla 

 cheopis). Instances of mimicry were shown by Professor Poulton and 

 Lord Avebury, while Messrs. Crawley and Donisthorpe had very 

 interesting observation nests of British Ants with Guests ; the latter 

 also showed a very complete collection of myrmecophilous insects, as 

 well as specimens under the microscope. 



Mr. S. A. Blenkarn exhibited British Coleoptera, and Mr. James 

 Edwards photomacrographs of the same ; and Mr. H. W. Andrews, 

 Syrphidae. Professor Selwyn Image brought some interesting old 

 entomological books. 



The exhibits of Lepidoptera were too numerous to record in 

 entirety ; we particularly noticed Dr. Chapman's last three new 

 European butterflies, Mr. C. P. Pickett's Amjerona prunaria — the 

 results of thirteen years' interbreeding, Mr. Edelsten's Nonaiiria and 

 Leucania, Mr. Kaye's HelicoiuK^, the Hon. M. C. Rothschild's Gynan- 

 dromorphs and New Guinea Papilionidae, and Messrs. A. Harrison and 

 H. Main's Boarmia repandata and Pieris iiapi. 



Two series of original illustrations, which attracted much favour- 

 able comment, were Mr. Eltringham's drawings for the plates of his 

 work African Mimetic BniterflieA, and the Rev. G. Wheeler's water- 

 colour drawings of Swiss Butterflies. 



OBITUARY. 



In the death of Canon Cruttwell, which occurred on April 4th, 

 learned pursuits in general and entomology in particular have suffered 

 a serious loss. Born in 1847, Charles Thomas Cruttwell received his 

 early education at the Merchant Taylors' School under the Head- 

 mastership of the late Archdeacon Hessey. Like many other alumni 



