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the Society but by many students in entomology and other branches 
of natural history. 
Numerous items of importance are to be found in the abstract of 
the business transacted at the meetings, which are held in the even- 
ings of the second and fourth Thursdays of each month throughout 
the year. : 
The wide range of subjects engaging the attention of the mem-_ 
bers is well illustrated by the five papers printed in the present 
volume. These are:—‘ Effects of Physical and Chemical Agencies 
on Lepidoptera” (H. 8. Fremlin, M.R.C.8., F.E.S.) ; “House Moths” 
(A. Sich, F.E.S.); ‘Notes on Hungarian Butterflies’ (A. H. Jones, 
F.E.S.); “Insects as Carriers of Disease” (H. S. Fremlin, M.R.C.S., 
F.E.S.); ‘Orchids and their Cultivation” (W. J. Kaye, F.E.S.). 
In addition to various other matters of interest adverted to by the 
President (Mr. A. Sich) in his address is an exceedingly able discourse 
on the antiquity of natural history study. 
A Survey and Record of Woolwich and West Kent. Edited by C. H. 
GrintinG, T. A. Incram, M.A., LL.D., B. C. PonkincHorne, 
B.Se., F.C.8. (the late), and others. Pages i-viii and 1-526. 
Woolwich: Labour Representation Printing Co., Ltd. 1909. 
Tuts volume is the result of a remarkable effort of local co- 
operation in scientific study. The South-Hastern Union of Scientific 
Societies having accepted an invitation to hold its Twelfth Annual 
Congress in Woolwich, in June, 1907, a local Committee was formed, 
and it resolved to commemorate the Congress by making a series of 
surveys of the district and publishing them as a local scientific hand- 
book. This resolution has been carried out by the united labour of a 
large number of workers, and the surveys form an invaluable book of 
reference to local students of natural history. 
The Geological Section, pp. 3-30, is edited by W. Whitaker, B.A., 
HRS. BVG:s:. 
The Botanical Section, pp. 31-230, is a Flora of Woolwich and 
West Kent, edited by J. F. Bevis, B.A., B.Sc., and W. H. Griffin. 
More than two thousand species are recorded, with notes on the 
nature of the habitat and actual localities where found, with dates. 
More than half the entries appear here for the first time, and several 
new county records have been established. . 
Mr. J. W. Tutt, F.E.S., has edited the Zoological Section (pp. 231— 
440). In this part the annotated list of Coleoptera runs to 53 pages, 
and comprises over 1200 species; whilst the list of the Lepidoptera, 
with localities, &c., extends to 87 pages. Of Hemiptera, 223 species 
of Heteroptera and 150 of Homoptera are entered; this list is founded 
on the work of Mr. W. West, of Greenwich. Owing apparently to 
a dearth of observers in the past, some orders of the Insecta are 
not mentioned, and Neuroptera is only represented by 8 species of 
Odonata. 
There is also a section on Archeology, a Survey of the Scientific 
Industries along the Thames from the Ravensbourne to the Darenth, 
and a note on Woolwich as a Centre for Photography. 
