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until the time of his death (1876). They subsequently came 

 under the care of Mr. Lowne, and are still in that gentleman's 

 possession. 



It will be seen by the extracts from the minute-book (1841- 

 1851) given above that the exotic portion of the collection was 

 disposed of, so that the cabinets, when deposited with Mr. 

 Newman, contained only British species. The collections were 

 subsequently enriched during the twenty- four years that Mr. 

 Newman was the Curator. Mr. Lowne has now had the charge 

 of the property of the Club for about twenty-three years, but 

 during this period there are few recorded gifts to the Club. The 

 chief items are the following: — 



November %%nd, 1876. — A copy of Swammerdam's ' Natural 

 History,' which had been presented to Mr. Newman by Mr. 

 Joshua Brown, of Cirencester, was presented to the Entomological 

 Club by Mrs. Newman, and the book was ordered to be placed in 

 the hands of the Curator. 



October IQth, 1881. — Mr. Brown presented the Club with a 

 copy of Goedart's ' Entomology,' published in 1635. 



It is to be hoped that these collections of British insects may 

 again become available for general study. Almost quite recently 

 there was a report that they were to be deposited with one of the 

 London local societies, and so would be accessible to all entomo- 

 logists. If this could haply be effected, the arrangement would 

 certainly be quite in accord with the intentions of the original 

 founders of these historic collections. 



SOME NEW ENTOMOLOGICAL BOOKS. 



Insects. Part II. By David Sharp, M.A., M.B., F.B.S., &c. 

 8vo. Pp. i-xii, 1-626. Illustrated. London and New 

 York : Macmillan & Co. 1899. 



The present volume is the sixth of the Cambridge Natural 

 History. In our notice of the first part of Dr. Sharp's im- 

 portant work (Entom. xxix. 71), we mentioned that the orders 

 recognised by the author were nine in number. Of these 

 Aptera, Orthoptera, Neuroptera, and a portion of the Hyme- 

 noptera were treated in the former volume ; the remainder of 

 the Hymenoptera, together with Coleoptera, Lepidoptera, Diptera, 

 Thysanoptera, and Hemiptera are considered in the volume 

 before us. The divisions of Hymenoptera now discussed are 

 the Tubulifera and the Aculeata, these being the second and 

 third series of the suborder Petiolata. 



The Coleoptera are divided into six series as follows : — Lamel- 

 licornia, Adephaga, Polymorpha, Heteromera, Phytophaga, and 



