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possession of any part of the Forest for military purposes, and exclude the 
public from the enjoyment of any tract so taken. Already it is proposed 
to take 800 acres for a rifle range and the site of a camp, and there is 
nothing to prevent the exercise of such rights throughout the district, and 
the conversion of the Forest into a second Aldershot. Wherever a portion 
of the Forest is taken, the rights of the commoners, if they complain, will 
be bought up and extinguished; and thus by taking different areas at 
different times the Commissioners may, before very long, extinguish the 
common rights and reduce the Forest into private ownership. It is clear 
that the proposed enclosure of 800 acres and the user of the Forest 
generally in the way described, is in direct violation of the spirit and inten- 
tion, as well as of the express provisions, of the New Forest Act of 1877. 
The object, therefore, of the New Forest Bill, is to make it clear that 
the Forest shall not be deemed to be within the provisions of the 10th 
Section of the Ranges Act, 1891, and that the provisions of the New Forest 
Act, 1877, shall remain in force. The rights secured by the Act of 1877, 
and the preservation of the Forest as an open space, are of the greatest 
importance to naturalists, artists, and the general public, and every possible 
effort should be made to secure the passing of the Bill, by signing petitions 
in support of it.—H. Goss; Surbiton Hill. 
Erratum. — Page 20, for Macroglossa vow read Macroglossa now 
throughout the note. 
SOCIETIES. 
EntomoLocicaL Soctzty or Lonpoxn.—January 27th, 1892.—Fifty- 
ninth Annual Meeting (adjourned from the 20th inst. on account of the 
death of H.R.H. the Duke of Clarence), Mr. F. DuCane Godman, F.R.S., 
President, in the chair. An abstract of the Treasurer’s accounts, 
showing a good balance in the Society’s favour, having been read by 
one of the Auditors, the Secretary, Mr. H. Goss, read the Report of the 
Council. It was then announced that the following gentlemen had been 
elected as Officers and Council for 1892: — President, Mr. Frederick 
DuCane Godman, F.R.S.; Treasurer, Mr. Robert McLachlan, F.R.S.; 
Secretaries, Mr. Herbert Goss, F.L.S., and the Rev. Canon Fowler, M.A., 
F.L.S.; Librarian, Mr. George C. Champion, F.Z.S.; and as_ other 
Members of the Council, Mr. C. G. Barrett, Mr. Herbert Druce, F.L.S., 
Captain Henry J. Elwes, F.L.S., Prof. Raphael Meldola, F.R.S., Mr. 
Edward B. Poulton, M.A., F.R.S., Dr. David Sharp, M.A., F.R.S., 
Colonel Charles Swinhoe, F.L.8., and the Right Hon. Lord Walsingham, 
LL.D., F.R.S. It was also announced that the President would appoint 
Captain Elwes, Dr. Sharp, and Lord Walsingham, Vice-Presidents for the 
Session 1892—38. The President then delivered an Address. After 
alluding to the vast number of species of insects and to the recent 
calculations of Dr. Sharp and Lord Walsingham as to the probable 
number of them as yet undescribed, he referred to the difficulty 
experienced in preparing a monograph of the fauna of even a com- 
paratively small part of the world, e.g., Mexico and Central America, 
and certain small islands in the West Indian Archipelago, upon 
which he, with a large number of competent assistants, had been 
engaged for many years. The examination of the collections recently 
