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paramount organ in this case. He had also conducted some 

 experiments with ultra-violet rays, which seemed to indicate that these 

 rays had a very strong effect on insect life. Time again prevented a 

 discussion on this interesting theme, which certainly would otherwise 

 have taken place. The concluding ceremony was a Banquet in 

 Wadham Hall, and many interesting and more or less impromptu 

 speeches were delivered after the toasts, the speech that took one by 

 surprise most of all being the response to the health of the ladies and 

 the science of entomology, Avhen Miss Rowland-Brown was called to 

 her feet to perform this little duty. Needless to say a most graceful 

 and entertaining speech fell from her lips, which quite charmed the 

 assembled guests. The final day was spent at the Tring Museum by 

 the kind invitation of the Hon. Walter Rothschild, and many will 

 never forget the sight of the treasures there exhibited. 



We mast not close without a word on the private cafe in the garden 

 of the Warden of Wadham, which without doubt added very largely to 

 the social success of the Congress ; most of the visitors partook of 

 their luncheons and teas there, and it soon became the meeting place 

 for all. It was a great pleasure to the writer to make the personal 

 acquaintance of many entomologists from different parts of the world, 

 with whom he had corresponded for years, and also with others whose 

 names had been known for long. The memory of this Oxford Congress 

 will not soon fade and will we hope be refreshed in 1915 at Vienna, 

 under the presidency of the well known entomologist Dr. Antoine 

 Handlirsch. 



The Second International Congress of Entomology. 



By Kev. G. WHEELER, M.A., F.Z.S., F.E.S. 

 It would have been difficult to choose a more appropriate place 

 than Oxford for an International Congress, or a more appropriate 

 building for its meetings than the University Museum, containing as 

 it does the Hope Department of Entomology, one of the finest, and 

 probably the best arranged Insect collection in the world. The 

 Colleges and other University Buildings too, are those most calculated 

 in this Country to impress our foreign Visitors, and they cannot be 

 said to have failed in this particular. Several of the Colleges had 

 undertaken to put up members of the Congress, and others were ready 

 to do so had more space been required. The large marquee put up in 

 the private garden of the Warden of Wadham, w^ho had generously 

 placed this delightful retreat at the disposal of the members, added 

 greatly to their enjoyment and to the opportunities of social intercourse 

 among them, for most of them availed themselves of this for lunch and 

 tea, and many also for the evening hours. Indeed, it would hardly be 

 too much to say that a larger proportion of the important work of the 

 Congress was carried on informally in the tent, than officially in the 

 Lecture-rooms at the Museum. Illness, now happily a thing of the 

 past, prevented the attendance of the General Secretary, Dr. Malcolm 

 Burr, till near the end of the Congress, but his place was most 

 efficiently supplied by the Secretaries of the Reception Committee, Mr. 

 Eltringham and Mr. Grosvenor, especially the former, whose work was 

 invaluable, and Dr. Burr's Secretary, Mr. Loesch, though not himself 

 an entomologist, also rendered great assistance. 



