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society's operations, very little indeed has been done for entomology in 

 Wiltshire, and that even in the case of this society its investigations have 

 been almost confined to the Lepidoptera and Coleoptera, and the members 

 are urged strenuously to apply themselves to the study of the other orders 

 of insects in Wiltshire, and as Marlborough College is likely to be always 

 the chief centre of entomological study in the county, Mr. Meyrick proposes 

 in future to issue lists of insects observed in all parts of Wilts by outside 

 entomologists. It is most desirable that in this way the entomology of the 

 county as a whole may he somewhat more worthily dealt with in the future 

 than it has in the past, and it is to be hoped that all those interested in the 

 matter will at once put themselves in communication with Mr. E. Meyrick, 

 of Marlborough College, who has undertaken to compile the section on the 

 entomology of the county for the future Victorian History of Wiltshire. 



The usual reports of the work done by the different sections during the 

 year are given, the number of flowering plants observed being three hundred 

 and ninety-two. Amongst Lepidoptera eleven new species were added to 

 the list. The number is illustrated by good photos of Poulton Withy Bed — 

 Avebury Church — An Inscription, I. W., 1619, at Ramsbury Vicarage — 

 aud the Front of Littlecote House. 



Ditto, Report for year ending Christmas, 1901, No. 50, 1902. 



The usual report of the meetings held, excursions, and work done during 

 the year shows that this admirably managed society continues almost alone 

 in the county at present to do excellent Natural History work. The total 

 number of Lepidoptera now on the list is eleven hundred and twenty-four, 

 including nineteen species new to the neighbourhood discovered in 1901. 

 Among new flowers Anagallin <e«e?/« is noted at Chilfam ; Inula conyza, 

 at Boltsridge Wood ; and the rapid spread of Mimulus luteus down the 

 Kennet, from a single patch a few years ago, is noted. Lists of fossils from 

 various quarries and pits are given. Several photographic views are given, 

 amongst them: "Willows," "Below Granham Mill," "Cutting in Chalk 

 Marl, Clyffe Pypard," "Near Axford Farm," and " Beeches in Savernake 

 Forest." Mr. S. B. Dixon has a paper on the find of Palseolithic implements 

 at Knowle Farm, Savernake, in which he points out that theKnowle gravels 

 must have been laid down before the Pewsey Vale was cut out, and when 

 one continuous chalk plateau stretched across it. 



Travels in England by Richard Le G-allienne, 



with six illustrations by Herbert Railton. London : Grant Richards. 

 1900. Post 8vo, linen, pp. viii., 291. 



A book of thick paper, wide margins, and exceedingly easy reading, a 

 third part of which, pp. 102 — 151, 166 — 209, is concerned with the author's 

 journeys in Wiltshire— Salisbury, Old Sarum, Stonehenge, Winterslow, 

 Wilton, and Avebury. Old Sarum and Stonehenge are among the illus- 

 trations. The author looks at things purely from a literary point of view. 

 His heroes are heroes of literature. He goes to Winterslow " Hutt " to see 

 the room in which Hazlitt wrote his essays — and gives an amusing account 



