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the various meetings, with a short note of their respective purport, the 

 annual Address and two papers. A number of papers were read 

 during the year, but apparently only two have been published, riz., the 

 two included at the end of the volume, " Notes on the ('osniiidae," by 

 P. H. Tautz, F.E.S., and " Some Notes on Breeding and Collecting 

 during the Record Season of 1911," by L. W. Newman, F.E.S. It 

 seems a pity that other papers could not have been published. We 

 should very much have liked to read an account of the discussion 

 " The Relative Value of Environment and Heredity as Factors in 

 Production of Local Races," which was opened by L. B. Prout, F.E.S. 

 " Holiday Notes from Exmoor," by J. E. Gardner, F.E.S., " Notes on 

 Collecting Experiences in 1910," by Chas. Capper, " Collecting 

 Experiences in 1910," by R. G. Todd, F.E.S., and "Notes on the 

 Dri'pannlidae,''' by A. J. Willsdon, would no doubt have been found to 

 be useful both to the collector and to the more serious student. Even 

 if the Society were not in a sufficiently strong financial position to 

 publish all the papers read, one or other of our magazines Avould be 

 only too pleased to have these records. The President, Mr. A. W. 

 Mera, in his Annual Address, gives a very interesting Record of the 

 Season's Collecting, with many comments of his own on the habits of 

 particular species, on the origin and causes of certain abundance and 

 scarcity, and on the records of captures half a century ago compared 

 with present day records. We note on the Title-page that this is the 

 twenty-first issue of the Annual Report. — 'November, 1912. 



The South-Eastern Naturalist for 1912. Price three shillings 

 and sixpence. H. Norman Gray, 334, Commercial Road, E. — This 

 Annual Volume, now in its seventeenth year of publication is a record 

 of the work of the South Eastern Union of Scientific Societies and a 

 report of the Annual Congress (held at Folkestone in June last) with 

 the papers read at it. The only paper dealing with Entomology was 

 read by one of our staff, Mr. A. Sich, F.E.S., entitled " Lepidopterous 

 Case-bearers," treating of the wonderful ingenuity shewn by the larvie 

 of the genus Coleophora in the building of their movable shelters. Also 

 included in the Report is an account of the special exhibits got together 

 by the members of the Congress and their friends, and which were on view 

 in the Folkestone Museum. In provincial museums one so of ten finds 

 that the entomological section is in such woeful plight, that it was a 

 real pleasure to find that here at any rate the condition of the reference 

 collection was beyond reproach. The secret of course is that the 

 Curator is an entomologist. We sincerely congratulate Mr. Hills, 

 with whom years ago we had the pleasure of collecting, on the useful 

 state of the collections under his charge. Last year the volume 

 contained the obituary of one of the strenuous supporters of the Union, 

 our own much-missed Editor, and this year the volume contains the 

 record of one, without whose persistent effort the Union would not 

 stand where it does to-day. The Rev. Ashington Bullen, who for six 

 years was the popular secretary, passed away suddenly on the steamer 

 crossing from Calais to Dover. One of the kindliest of men, an 

 enthusiastic worker, honoured by all who knew him, his loss will long 

 be felt. A capital portrait of him has been included. Among those 

 elected on the Council for the ensuing two years are Messrs. A. E. 

 Gibbs, F.L.S., Edward Step, F.L.S., and Hy. J. Turner, F.E.S. 

 — H.J.T. 



