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illustrious in the Science and Literature of France ; nor were 
our own countrymen forgotten. A presentation was made to 
the hero of the day, including a fine plaquette, a duplicate 
copy of which I had the pleasure of exhibiting lately 
in this room. Several Fellows of our Society contributed 
towards the fund raised for the occasion, and I cannot resist 
quoting a few words from the letter of acknowledgment 
written by Dr. Legros, the Secretary of the movement: — 
“ Je vous prie, Monsieur le President, de recevoir pour vous- 
meme et de vouloir bien transmettre aux genereux donateurs 
I’expression de la profonde gratitude des organisateurs du 
comite. La noble Angleterre vient de nous donner une preuve 
de plus de ses traditions de courtoisie et de solidarite.” 
This, I think, may be taken as something more than mere 
conventional politeness. I prefer to see in it evidence of what 
I am convinced is a fact, viz. that nothing is more apt to 
promote feelings of international goodwill than community of 
scientific interests. 
If we wished for another indication of the truth of this 
opinion, we should find it in the excellent and interesting 
account of the Jubilee of the Entomological Society of Pussia, 
furnished to our Proceedings by Dr. Malcolm Burr, who so 
worthily represented us on that occasion. 
Our representatives at the Zoological Congress at Graz were 
the Hon. \V. Rothschild and Dr. Karl Jordan. The entomo¬ 
logists there present were few, but made up in quality what 
they lacked in number. Many of our Society will be pleased 
to know that the long-continued experimental work of Pro¬ 
fessor Max Standfuss was recognised at the Congress by the 
bestowal on him of a special honour. 
But if entomologists at Graz were few and far between, 
they had mustered in good force at Brussels for the First 
International Congress of Entomology. The success of this 
undertaking was undoubted. The social and scientific aspects 
of the Congress were both felt to be of high value; and the 
fact that Brussels was en fete over the Exhibition with a gaiety 
not yet sobered by the deplorable conflagration, while it 
may have led here and there to a little crowding and incon¬ 
venience, yet provided ample compensation, especially for the 
