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the same year that I lost, by death, my loved and valued friend, Mr. 

 Alfred Owen, who, for the last few years, had been my constant 

 companion in all entomological excursions. In 1877 our Lancashire 

 and Cheshire Society was founded, the first meeting of which was 

 held at my house, Huvton Park, on the 26th March of that year. 

 From that time my history is pretty well familiar to you all, and I will 

 conclude these few remarks by expressing the gratification it affords 

 me to record the constant success of our Society. Our last Session 

 has certainly been equal to any of the past, either as regards the 

 Papers read, the discussions and the exhibits, whilst the progress that 

 has been made in the past year towards the compilation of a register 

 of the insect fauna of all orders (Lancashire and Cheshire) is most 

 satisfactory and creditable to all who have been engaged in this 

 undertaking. I cannot help specially alluding to the valuable work 

 achieved in this direction by our late Vice-President, Mr. Willoughby 

 Gardner, the result of which he gave us in his elaborate and most 

 interesting paper on the Hymenoptera of the two counties. This 

 paper, I am glad to say, is now being published in the British 

 Naturalist, and will form, I am sure, the foundation of our records in 

 this order. Now, I feel that some of you who were comparatively 

 youngsters when this Society was first inaugurated, are at present the 

 moving spirits of the day, commencing where we old folks leave off. 

 It is to you we look for the development of a Society like our own, 

 and in you is my confidence for its success in the future. Do not 

 disappoint me. [And so say all of us. — Ed.] — F. N. Pierce, Hon. Sec. 



OTICES, REVIEWS, Etc. 



Transactions of the City of London Entomological and 

 Natural History Society for 1891. — Published by The Society, 

 33, Finsbury Square, E.G. — This, one of the oldest of our Entomo- 

 logical Societies, consisting, as it does essentially, of real working 

 collectors, has never before been in the financial position of being able 

 to issue a Report of its work. With our poorer Societies this is a great 

 drawback, as much good work is done, and, with the exception of the 

 occasional articles which find their way into the various magazines, 

 nothing lasting comes from this work. Having surmounted the initial 

 difficulty of bringing out its first Report, it is to be hoped that each 

 successive year will see the volume increased in size, and the matter 

 equally interesting. Fairly exhaustive papers on " The genus 

 Dotiacia" " Protective coloration," " The bands in certain Geometrid 

 genera," "The larva of Triphcena siibseqiia" "Habits of Bistofi 

 liirtaria" "The life-history of Apamea ophiograf/wia" "The genus 

 Noctua" " Dragonflies," etc., show the nature of the scientific work 

 performed by the Society during 1891, whilst short summaries of many 

 other papers appear. The volume contains some 40 pp. of close 

 print, consisting entirely of scientific matter, and without the waste 

 space generally found in such productions. The Society is to be 

 congratulated on publishing its work of 1891 before the middle of 

 January, 1892, and to other Societies we would most earnestly say, 

 " Go thou and do likewise ! " — Ed. 



