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A List of the Hymenoptera-Aculeata so far obseryrd in the 

 Counties of Lancashire and Cheshire, with notes on the habits of the 

 Genera ; by Willoughbt Gardner, F.L.S., F.R.G.S., F.E.S. 8vo, pp. 1—61, 

 1901. Reprinted from Trans. Liverpool Biol. Soc., vol. xv, 1901. 



This is a very well got up local list, to which is added a map showing tlie 

 localities which have been collected in ; from this map one realizes nt once how 

 little of these counties has really been worked for Hymenoptera, and there can be 

 little doubt that the list will be largely extended when collectors can be found to 

 visit the less known districts ; at present 44 °/ of the total known British species 

 have occurred, and amongst these is one species, Coelioxys mandibular is, which has 

 not been recorded from elsewhere. Mr. Gardner has added some particulars as to 

 the habits of the British genera, which should encourage local Entomologists to 

 study this much neglected branch of the subject. — E. S. 



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Prof. Carlos Berg, C.M.Z.S., F.E.S. , Director of the National Museum at 

 Buenos Ayres, died there on January 19th, after a long illness.* He was, we think, 

 a native of the Russian Baltic Provinces, and before his emigration to South 

 America ho held the post of Librarian at Riga. At first his position in the Argen- 

 tine Republic was subordinate, but just before the death of Burmeister, in 1892, he 

 succeeded the latter as Director. Berg's studies embraced nearly the whole of the 

 Insecta, and other Arthropods, and his work is generally considered sound and 

 reliable. His geographical limits extended to the extreme south of South America, 

 and included much that is interesting from Patagonia, Tiorra del Fuego, Chili, &c. 

 He revisited Europe on several occasions : we met him in London only a year or 

 two ago. He joined the Entomological Society of London in 1882, and was elected 

 a Corresponding Member of the Zoological Society in 1896. Entomology in Argen- 

 tina has been fortunate in having had two such capable students as Burmeister and 

 Berg ; let us hope the death of the latter will not throw it back ! 



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Lancashire and Cheshire Entomological Society : March loth, 1902. 

 Mr. Robt. Newstead, A.L.S., F.E.S., in the Chair. 



Mr. E. Whitley, of " Clovelly," Sefton Park, Liverpool, and Oxford University, 

 was elected a Member of the Society. 



It was resolved that the next meeting be held in Liverpool on April 14th, and 

 that Messrs. F. C. Thompson, F. Birch, and E. J. B. Sopp be appointed a sub- 

 committee to examine and report on the condition of the Library of the Society at 

 an early date. 



A paper on " Organic Evolution," with lime-light views, was communicated by 



* Another account says " suddenly on January 21st." 



