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Your letter was very welcome to us, first because it seemed 
to us an honour and compliment to be associated with your 
illustrious University in any undertaking whatever, and next 
because it was Carolus Linneus in particular that we were 
invited to commemorate, the man whom we students of 
entomology regard, even as the botanists, with a special 
reverence and filial affection as the most distinguished advancer 
of our science, indeed almost as its parent. 
Accordingly we have commissioned our colleague, the Rev. 
F. D. Morice, M.A., Fellow of Queen’s College, Oxford, to 
express to you on the spot how glad we feel to be allowed 
to join with you in celebrating the birthday of your illustrious 
fellow-countryman. 
We hope that by this celebration others will be incited to 
practise and advance these studies of ours, which not only are 
wont to afford to us personally the greatest pleasure and 
advantage, but also—as we can confidently assert—are capable 
of conducing to the general benefit of mankind. 
Most heartily we wish you well! 
CHARLES O. WATERHOUSE, President. 
FREDERIC MERRIFIELD 
EpwarpD SAUNDERS | Vice Preston 
GroRGE Henry VERRALL 
International Congress of Entomology. 
The PresipEnt read the following letter received from Dr. 
Karu Jorpan, F.E.S., of the Museum, Tring— 
** Zoological Museum, Tring, Herts., England, 
** June 1st, 1907. 
‘¢ Sir, 
“The undersigned Entomologists consider it opportune 
to organise an International Congress of Entomology, to meet 
for the first time in 1908. In order to render the Congress a 
success the moral support by the Entomological Societies is an 
absolute necessity for the undertaking, and we therefore write 
to solicit the kind co-operation of the Officers and Fellows of 
the Entomological Society of London. Should the Council, as 
we venture to hope, favour our plan, we beg the Hon. Secre- 
