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JOURNAL OF VARIATION. 



No. 11. Vol. V. November ISth, 1894. 



©UR PHOTOGRAPH. 



The genial and kind-hearted President of the Lancashire and 

 Cheshire Entomological Society apjDears never so happy as when he has 

 around him the naturalists of his own immediate neighbourhood or 

 when he is entertaining entomologists from other districts who are 

 making a stay for business or pleasure in the vicinit3^ I*- ^^^ become 

 an annual institution for him to invite a few entomological friends to 

 spend a few days with him, and then to ask the celebrities of the 

 entomological world in and about Liverpool to meet them. 



At such a gathering as this "Our photograph" was taken l)y Miss 

 Annie CapjDer, and its reproduction will, we hope, give pleasure to many 

 readers at a time when almost every local Society both in England and 

 abroad has, thanks to the kindness of some member or other, an album 

 in which to keep the portraits of those with whom they have become 

 intiuiate by coi-respondence. " Our photograph " contains the portraits 

 of the following gentlemen, commencing witli the left-hand corner of 

 the back row : — 



1. —0. F. Johnson of Stockport, a student of our British Lepidoptera. 

 2. —J. Watson of Manchester, who has a wonderful collection of the 

 Pierinaeoi the world. 3. — C. G. Barrett, F.E.S., the late President and 

 present Vice-President of the South London Entomological Society, one 

 of the Editors of the Ent. Monthly Mag., and one of our best authorities 

 (m British Tortrices. 4. — E. Newstead, F.E.S., the Curator of the 

 Grosvenor Museum, Chester, who is becoming well-known for his 

 excellent work with the Coccids. 6. — Eev. A. W. Carter of Pluyton, 

 who claims only a general interest in our pursuit. (3. — J. W. Ellis 

 M.B., F.E.S., of Liverpool, a diligent student of British Coleoptera. 

 7. — H. Capper, the eldest son of the President of the Lancashire 

 Society. 8. — Linn^us Greening, F.L.S., one of the Editors of The 

 Britkli Naturalist, with a strong liking for Eeptiles. \). — Isaac C. 

 Thompson, F.E.M.S., F.L.S. who goes in more especially for Micro- 

 scopic studies. In the second row we have : — 10. — E. Wilding, another 

 student of British Lepidoptera and ColeojDtera. 11. — C. S. Greo'son 

 an entomologist of the old school, a keen and enthusiastic collector in 

 days gone by, a thorough Britisher with a penchant for " Gooseberry 

 moths " and " Tigers " ; wlio once believed that anything would do for 



