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place on Friday, October 27tb, Mr. H. Donisthorpe being the host. 

 The guests were R. Adkin, member of the Club, E. C. Bedwell, H. J. 

 Carter (Australia), Dr. Cockayne, J. H. Durrant, H. Willoughby Ellis, 

 W.J. Kaye, G. C. Leman, Dr. G. K. Marshall, Rev. F. D. Morice, H. E. 

 Page, N. D. Riley, and Hy. J. Turner. Mrs. Donisthorpe welcomed 

 the visitors in the reception room, where tea and coffee were served 

 during the conversazione before supper. Much admiration was 

 expressed for the wonderful and admirably arranged collection of ant- 

 guests made by Mr. Donisthorpe. 



On Thursday, November '28rd, the South London Entomological 

 Society will hold its Annual Special Exhibition of Varieties, when it is 

 hoped that another fine " gathering of the clan " will take place. The 

 Society cordially invites friends and visitors, who will be doubly 

 welcome if they bring an exhibit. Nearly two hundred members and 

 friends were present on the last occasion, and it is hoped that there 

 will be an equally successful meeting on this occasion. 



We hear that Messrs. Watkins and Doncaster, Naturalists, of 36, 

 Strand, have a large number of back numbers of Seitz, and even a few- 

 copies of the Palaearctir Bntteifiien (English edition) for sale. 



At the Annual Congress of the South-Eastern Union of Scientific 

 Societies, held at Southampton in June last, a Zoological Section was 

 formed. Prof. E. B. Poulton, F.R.S., being unanimously elected 

 President. It was agreed to include in the work of the section the 

 Compilation of a List of all works, papers, articles, etc., dealing with 

 the local fauna of the area comprised in the South-Eastern Union. 

 The affiliated Societies are asked to co-operate by sending in titles of 

 such. When a sufficient amount of material has been accumulated the 

 Council of the Union will be asked to publish this Bibliography in the 

 South- Eastern Naturalist, together with a summary shownig the areas 

 which remain to be investigated in any order by individual workers of 

 the affiliated Societies of those areas. Mr. Hy. J. Turner, 98, Drakefell 

 Road, is acting as Secretary for the time being. 



The Entomological Society of Hampshire is undertaking the task 

 of compiling a Hamiishirc Cuantij List of Lejiidoptera, and are asking 

 that all lepidopterists, whether in or outside the county, who can help, 

 will do so by sending in their lists, especially of the Microlepidoptera, 

 to the President, Mr. W. Fassnidge, 47, Tennyson Road, Southampton. 

 We trust that our readers will respond freely to this appeal. Work of 

 this sort is a step in the advancement of knowledge, a help to all future 

 students of our science. 



The Jubilee Supper of the South London Entomological Society 

 was a very successful event. Some seventy members and their friends 

 sat down to an excellent repast at the Holborn Restaurant, on Thurs- 

 day, October 19th, with Mr. R. Adkin, F.E.S., in the chair. After a 

 short account of the foundation and history of the Society by the 

 chairman, the meeting had the pleasure of hearing a few words from 

 the only surviving original member, Mr. G. C. Champion, A.L.S. The 

 musical side of the meeting was afforded by a former member, Mr. 

 Percy Richards. 



We regret to record the death of Arthur Home, F.E.S., a well- 

 known collector of- Aberdeen, whose series of aberrations of British 

 Lepidoptera is probably one of the most notable, and has few rivals. 

 It is reported that the collection will come up to Stevens' sale rooms. 



