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SATURDAY, August ioth. 



Practically the whole of the members of the Congress 

 accepted the kind invitation of the Hon. W. Rothschild to visit 

 his private Zoological Museum at Tring. A special train was 

 arranged to leave Oxford at 8.35 a.m. The railway tickets 

 having been on sale at the office of the Congress during the week, 

 no time was lost at the station. For the convenience of those 

 members (the large majority) who wished to proceed to London 

 later in the day, it was arranged that a luggage van should be 

 attached to the train, and should remain at Tring during the 

 day, being subsequently attached to the 4.52 train from Tring 

 to London. 



At Tring Station the party was met by a number of con- 

 veyances, which conducted the members to the Museum. 



The Editors are indebted to Mr. H. Rowland-Brown for 

 the following account of this memorable visit : 



The formal business of the Congress was concluded on Friday, 

 August 9th, but members were invited en masse to Tring by the 

 Hon. Walter Rothschild. The rendezvous was exceptionally 

 convenient for the many returning that day to London en route 

 for the Continent, and 130 guests sat down to lunch in the Victoria 

 Hall, to enjoy the spacious hospitality offered them there. Mean- 

 while, the party had been received in the Museum itself, where 

 Mr. Walter Rothschild delivered a short speech of welcome 

 in French, German, and English, laying special stress on the debt 

 of gratitude he owed to his old friend and counsellor, the natura- 

 list Dr. Albert Günther, to whom he owed his first resolve 

 to devote his life to the study of Nature in general, and of birds 

 and butterflies in particular. We were then conducted through 

 the several magnificent collections by Dr. Karl Jordan and 

 others, whose names are so closely associated with the work done 

 for Entomology at Tring. Especially interesting were the exhibits 



