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and their Guests,” with lantern demonstration (H. St. J. 
Donisthorpe); “ On the Conservation of Types in Museums ” 
(the Rev. W. J. Holland, Hon. F.E.S.); “The Preservation 
of Collections in Tropical Climates ” (J. M. Hewlett); “ Dis¬ 
tribution Geographique, et Physiologie des Coleopteres Lam- 
pyrides ” (E. Olivier). While among the papers read by others 
of our countrymen who are not Fellows may be mentioned 
“ The Disinfection of Imported Seeds of Plants, and the Use 
of Insecticides,” by Sir Daniel Morris, K.C.M.G., D.Sc., 
D.C.L., F.R.S., representing the Royal Colonial Institute, 
and the Imperial Department of Agriculture in the West 
Indies; and “Notes on the (Estrides (Diptera),” by Dr. G. H. 
Carpenter, representing the Royal College of Science, Dublin. 
At the final general meeting the President, Professor 
Lameere, having briefly summed up the work done, and con¬ 
gratulated the Congress upon the unqualified success of its 
first session, it was decided that a second Congress should 
be held in the summer of 1912. As delegate of Oxford Uni¬ 
versity, Professor Poulton, supported by his co-delegates. Dr. 
F. A. Dixey and Dr. Malcolm Burr, with the other Oxford 
Graduates present, cordially invited the members to the 
University city, an invitation which was accepted with 
enthusiasm. 
Meanwhile the more serious business had been relieved by 
excursions to various places of interest and beauty in the 
neighbourhood, including the Congo Museum of Tervueren 
and the Brussels National History Museum. The visit to the 
battlefield of Waterloo, under the able direction of M. Charles 
Kerremans, who has an unrivalled knowledge of the site 
and details of the battle, was very popular. On Friday, 
August 5, the success of the Congress was also celebrated 
by a banquet, where there gathered together many leaders of 
the Science, wearing numerous brilliant orders conferred by 
Sovereigns and other heads of States. The celebrations ter¬ 
minated with a reception, given by M. Max, Burgomaster of 
Brussels, in the Hotel de Ville. And there, amid a scene of 
brilliance and splendour, entomologists of all nations, old 
friends as well as new, speaking many languages, bade one 
another farewell. A detailed Report of the Congress by Dr. 
