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known insects keep better in the most rubbishing old cabinets"' so 

 treated, than in new ones of the very best London make, used as sent. 

 Secondly : — Drawers so treated can be continually re-arranged with the- 

 minimum of trouble and best results as to appearance, and pencil lines- 

 (which after all work the best) can be freely used ; for if ruled on the 

 whitewash, a damp sponge will remove them and the whole coat in a 

 minute, and a fresh one can be at once applied, which is dry in a ie\v 

 hours ; or, if the lines are ruled on the paper, a coat of the wash will 

 hide them and all discolorations, and fill up the pin holes, which is not 

 done where silk threads are used, and shifted. — K. M. Hinchliff,. 

 Instow, N. Devon. 



Entosiological Pins. — Since the publication of my note on entom- 

 ological pins in the Ent. Becord, iii., p. 240, I have received from. 

 Messrs. Tayler and Co. of Birmingham, samples of an improved style 

 of pin Avhich they have manufactured lateh', and I am sure that entom- 

 ologists will gladly welcome this " new departure," j^articularly after 

 the many protests made in vain against the old pattern. The former 

 unsightly heads have now disappeared, and in the new samples, the 

 heads, which are of a far better shape, have been reduced to the 

 smallest possible size that the excellent process of manufacture used by 

 the firm will admit of. By this process the head is formed first, and 

 the point is then ground true with the head ; whereas by the ordinary 

 method — which is responsible for so large a proportion of liad points — 

 the point is formed first, and the head is added afterwards, and 

 freqiiently at the expense of the point. These pins are noAv 2:)ractically 

 all that can be desired, as stiff as ever, with first-rate points, and heads, 

 against which no objections can be heard. When " black-enamelled," 

 they are by far the best black pins that I have ever seen, and they have 

 certainly " come as a boon and a blessing to men," and particularlj^ to 

 those of us who share with some of the birds a partiality for " fly- 

 catching." — Eustace R. Bankes, The Rectory, Corfe Castle. Januari/ 

 7th, 1893. 



BURRENT NOTES. 



The Sixtieth Annual Meeting of the Entomological Society of 

 Ijondon was held on 18th January, 1893. — An Abstract of the 

 Treasurer's accounts having been read by one of the Auditors, the 

 Secretary, Mr. H. Goss, read the report of the Council. After the 

 ballot, it was announced that the following gentlemen had been elected 

 as Officers and Council for 1893 : — President, Mr. Henry J. Elwes, 

 r.L.S. ; Treasurer, Mr. Robert McLachlan, F.R.S. ; Secretaries, Mr, 

 Herbert Goss, F.L.S. and the Rev. Canon Fowler, M.A., F.L.S. ; 

 Librarian, Mr. George C. Champion, F.Z.S. ; and as other Members of 

 the Council, Mr. C. G. Barrett, Mr. Charles J. Gahan, M.A., Mr. F. 

 DuCane Godman, F.R.S., Mr. Frederic Merrifield, Mr. Osbert Salvin, 

 M.A., F.R.S., Dr. David Sharp, M.A., F.R.S., Colonel Charles Swinhoe, 

 M.A., F.L.S. and Mr. George H. Verrall. The President then delivered 

 an Address, which, though containing reference to the Society's internal 

 affairs, and an allusion to the successful resistance made by naturalists- 

 and others to the War Office scheme for establishing a rifle range in 

 the New Forest, consisted for the most part of full obituary notices of 



