(lin) 
though the speakers of Spanish have hitherto not shown 
sufficient ardour in scientific pursuits to have much claim to 
international consideration. 
In countries like England, Germany, and the United 
States of America, which have a large number of working 
entomologists, it would probably be convenient to divide the 
record into subjects, so as not to oblige lepidopterists, cole- 
opterists, or dipterists pure and simple to purchase a very 
much larger quantity of matter that they could not use. But 
countries which have but few workers, or which only have 
them from time to time, might be obliged to group them- 
selves for the purpose of a record in such manner as was 
decided by an international congress, and colonists might 
be required to make use of the record of their parent 
country. 
All these and many other details would no doubt require 
time and consideration to determine, but I venture to think 
that if the Royal Society took the matter up, and, after it 
report had been circulated, an international congress was 
convened, we should find that minor difficulties could be 
settled ; and, as a last resort, countries or persons refusing to 
conform to the decision of such an international congress, 
could be scientifically ignored until they did. 
Another point to which I should like to call the attention 
of collectors, and especially dealers,.is the importance of 
making and keeping an accurate record of the locality of 
specimens, and the name of the person by whom they were 
taken. 
Though we are constantly seeing instances of the laxity of 
our predecessors in this respect, I fear that even now the 
importance of good locality labels is not recognised by some 
owners of large and growing collections. Very many speci- 
mens are constantly received from remote and little-known 
places, and sold, given away, or exchanged without such 
labels. In setting or resetting the tickets get changed or 
mislaid, and the value of the specimen is to a great extent 
entirely lost. Coloured tickets, or labels, with merely the 
name of some obscure village or camp, which cannot be found 
on an ordinary map, may serve the purpose of the collector 
