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attain the highest pitcli of perfection, he becomes content to seek 

 ms recreation and enjoyment secondhand as lie does ]iis knoAvledoe 

 It IS an attitude I cannot understand ; for my part, I would rather 

 play lootbaJl at a street corner ten minutes than watch the best 

 football match ever played. That is to say as a recreation. As a 

 study It may be sometimes advantageous to observe the methods 

 ot other and better players than ourselves ; as a study merely 

 that IS as a means of learning how we may improve our own 

 methods, but the real amusement is in the part we play ourselves 

 bo m tlie Kecreation of Science, five minutes oursehes with the 

 microscope or Avith the net is wortli hours of Avatching other people, 

 be they ever so skilful. . ^ ^ » 



The simple pleasures afibrded by 2s ature are within reach of 

 all, in no case is any elaborate equipment necessary, the best work 

 being often done with the most meagre equipment. Try it for 

 yourselves and see. 



Xow, ladies and gentlemen, if the remarks I have made this 

 evening tend to set one more enquirer on the track ..f Science my 

 object will have been served, for every worker, however feeble, is 

 bound to add to the true knowledge of the .subject, and the 

 perfection of that knowledge, as far as earthly power can attain 

 IS, or ought to be, the aim of every true scientist. In conclusion, 

 then let me urge, as I have endeaA-oured to do in my Paiier, study 

 think, discover. i > - .>» 



CLEVELAXD LEPIDOPTERA IX 1901. 



By T. Ashtox Lofthouse, F.E.S. 



* Denotes Species leeorderl in our Proceedings for first time. 



The weather conditions during this year were not very 

 tavourable for insect life. Early spring was very cold and 

 Avintry. ]\Iay was cold Init dry, and insects were out well to 

 time. June was fairly fine, and .luring July and August some 

 very hot weather occurred, which tended to bring insects out very 

 much before their usual time. The year was more noteworthy for 

 the number of new species added to our list than for any creneral 

 abundance, the new species noted almost invariably bein^^ only 

 odd si^ecimens. Anotlier result of the dry and hot weather in 

 July and August was the number of insects that turned up in the 

 autumn as a partial second brood, among those noticed bein^r 



