The majority of scientific Entomologists residing in or 

 near London have confined their researches principally 

 to the Metropolitan district, or to the Southern counties 

 of England ; consequently the Midland counties present 

 an almost unworked field, which must contain very many 

 interesting novelties, 



Warwickshire from its high state of cultivation has but 

 few waste spots, on which insects usually abound, but its 

 varied soils and numerous woods will doubtless yield 

 great results to the efforts of a zealous collector. Those 

 of our members living in the country are earnestly 

 solicited to preserve and forward to our Curators, any 

 specimens that may fall in their way. Lepidoptera may 

 be captured in pill-boxes and killed by means of a few 

 drops of chloroform. Coleoptera and other orders should 

 be put into a bottle in which has been previously placed 

 a small quantity of bruised laurel leaves, the prussic acid 

 contained in the leaves not only very quickly killing the 

 insects, but also preserving them fresh, and in a state for 

 setting for a considerable length of time. 



ORNITHOLOGICAL COLLECTION. 



It has been observed with truth "that you cannot vie 

 with the larger Museums in a general collection, but you 

 may excel them if you confine yourself to a purely local 

 collection." Fully agreeing with this opinion, the Hon. 

 Curators, while enlarging the collection of British Birds, 

 purpose to do so as much as possible, by means of speci- 

 mens obtained in Warwickshire or the contiguous Coun- 

 ties. They offer these remarks in the hope that the 



