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ist Societies did not take up the Congress with more zest ; and 

 there were absent quite a number of ardent workers who would 

 have been a welcome addition to the forces. On the other hand, 

 the international element was well sustained ; the United States 

 leading the way with eighteen members, Germany following with 

 thirteen, Belgium with nine, while I think the only European 

 States of the west and north unrepresented were Italy, Portugal, 

 Russia, and Norway. Against this it is gratifying to note that 

 the remoter countries — Turkey (2), Spain (4), and Egypt (1) — 

 all sent delegates, and Dr. R. C. L. Perkins, of the Sandwich 

 Islands, and Professor Carlos E. Porter, of Chile, may be con- 

 gratulated on having come from "the uttermost parts of the earth." 

 Proceedings opened in the beautiful hall of New College 

 on Sunday evening (4th) with an informal gathering to meet the 

 President, Professor E. B. Poulton, F.R.S., and then the 

 charming badges designed by Professor Selwyn Image, Slade 

 Professor of Art, were distributed to members, and the various 

 orders of the day circulated. The badge consisted of a 

 circular gilt brooch, with the arms of the University, our hosts, 

 in blue enamel, and the legend " Congr : Entomol : Internat : 

 Oxon : 1912." This served as a pass throughout the week to all 

 the meetings and festivities. And here I may be permitted to 

 offer a word of grateful thanks to those who were responsible for 

 the organization of the Congress, the indefatigable Secretaries, 

 Mr. H. Eltringham (whose exhibition of Acraoines was one of the 

 clous of the Museum*) and Mr. G. H. Grosvenor, who stepped 

 into the breach when Dr. Malcolm Burr was unavoidably pre- 

 vented from completing his work, and attending the first days ; 

 Professor Poulton and Dr. F. A. Dixey, who invented the de- 

 lightful cafe in the gardens of Wadham College — where members 

 lunched, teaed, and met after dinner under shelter of Mr. Moon's 

 large marquee — and made the arrangements for the final banquet 

 when the Christ Church rendezvous was perforce abandoned. 

 A hundred and forty members and guests were present in Wad- 

 ham College Hall on this occasion — the college which is actually 

 the cradle of the Royal Society, where the original F.R.S. assem- 

 bled under Warden Wilkins (1648-59), t and where for the first 

 time in history a lady replied to the toast of '* The Ladies." Mean- 

 while, the great majority of members were housed for the week 

 in the several colleges of Wadham, New, Merton, and Magdalen, 

 and our foreign friends were thus initiated into the mysteries of 



'■' A grand collection of Acrseinae, models for the figures of Mr. 

 Eltringham's " Monograph of the African Species of the Genus Achrcea, 

 Fab., witli a supplement on those of the Oriental Region," Trans. Ent. 

 Soc. Lond., Part 1, July 12th, 1912. Dr. Dixey also exhibited an equally 

 comprehensive series of Pierinie. 



f See ' The Early Connexion of the Royal Society with Wadham College 

 and the University of Oxford,' by F. A. D. Oxford, 1912. 



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