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run most risk of extermination in this way, and therefore 
recommended to be sparingly collected. At the Society’s 
meeting of April 7th a Memorandum prepared by the Com- 
mittee and approved by the Council was submitted, and 
extensively signed by Fellows present, agreeing to associated 
action in discouraging by example and influence the destruc- 
tion of such rare and local species of insects as might be 
designated by the Committee as standing in need of protec- 
tion. There is good reason to think that the efforts made 
in this direction have been favourably received, and will not 
be barren of result. 
Early in July the Officers and Council of the Society paid 
their second visit to Oxford at the invitation of the Hope 
Professor of Zoology, and were again most hospitably 
received and entertained by the Vice-Chancellor and by Prof. 
Poulton and other distinguished resident Members of the 
University. It was with no little pleasure and _ profit 
that we renewed our acquaintance with the treasures of 
the Hope Collections, and noted the valuable and exten- 
sive augmentations they had received, and the important 
progress made in their classification and arrangement. 
The Hope Professor has given no less attention to the 
improvement of the accommodation for students, and 
the increased facilities thus afforded have largely furthered 
the prosecution of special study of different portions of the 
collections, as is well indicated by the appearance, under his 
editorship, of the first volume of ‘‘ The Hope Reports,’’ con- 
taining reprints of various memoirs based on researches 
carried on in this Department during the last four years. 
OBITUARY. 
The losses from death sustained by the Society and by 
Entomology during 1897 have been heavy. The Society has 
lost one Honorary and six Ordinary Fellows; and it is with 
no ordinary sorrow that we miss from our roll of members 
the distinguished names of Fritz Miller, Joseph William 
