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ll is our pleasing duty to add that we believe in every 

 instance, with one exception, the exhibits were received 

 and returned without damage or depreciation. This is a 

 Source of some congratulation, when we consider how fragile 

 were the subjects. 



From a popular point of view the Exhibition was a 

 complete success. During the fortnight it was open it was 

 visited by upwards of 70,000 people ; and the manner in 

 which large numbers of persons went carefully through, with 

 catalogue in hand, showed more than passing interest. It 

 was favourably noticed by about forty scientific and other 

 papers, one contemporary only adversely criticising; but as 

 that communication is anonymous it is unnecessary to further 

 notice it. Taken as a whole the Exhibition was interest- 

 ing enough to be popular, and scientific enough to be 

 instructive. 



The Exhibition, further, quite fulfilled the intention of its 

 promoters; for, besides their endeavour to make Entomology 

 a popular study, it was the means of bringing together a large 

 number of entomologists from all parts of the country, many 

 of whom, though kndwn to one another by correspondence, 

 had never met before; and by an exchange of experience 

 they were enabled materially to add to each other's store of 

 knowledge. So that, besides the opportunity of examining 

 the finest collection of insects ever brought together, many 

 entomologists will have most pleasant and profitable 

 recollections of the tiu)e they spent at the First National 

 Entomological Exhibition, 



A. B. Farn, 

 The Dartons, Dartford, Kent. 



W. p. Weston, 



1, Duncan Terrace, N. 



NOTES ON VARIATION IN COLOUK IN CERTAIN 



LARViE. 



By H. M. GoLDiNG-BiRD. 



Some interesting correspondence was published a few 

 months ago on the subject of " Melanism in certain Moths;" 

 and though the subject is hardly akin to mine, yet it was 

 tills that first led me to mark particularly the modification of 

 colour to which certain larvae are subject when removed from 



