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Reply to the Declaration of the German Professors. 

 The President said that he had received a letter from 

 Prof. Poulton, saying that the reply made by many of the 

 British University Professors to the declaration against 

 England issued by German Professors was being brought 

 before the various Scientific Societies in England, with a view 

 to its being formally endorsed by them. He read in full 

 both the Declaration and the Reply, and proposed the following 

 motion : — 



" That the Ofl&cers, Council, and Fellows of the Entomo- 

 logical Society op London, assembled at their meeting on 

 November 4, 1914, desire to be associated with the statements 

 and expressions of opinion by certain scholars and men of 

 science as published in the Times of October 21, 1914, and 

 that notice of this resolution be sent to the Press." 



He added that this motion had already been placed before 

 the Council, which had unanimously recommended it for 

 adoption by the Society. 



Prof. Poulton, in seconding the motion, said that he be- 

 lieved the reply expressed the almost unanimous opinion 

 of men of science in this country, and that even if there were 

 observations contained in it which individual Fellows, or 

 even Societies, would have preferred to see expressed some- 

 what differently, it was far better that they should associate 

 themselves with an already published form of reply, with 

 which they were in general agreement, than that each Society 

 should formulate its own reply, and thus lose by diffusion a 

 part of the weight which would be gained by cohesion. He 

 also observed that the name of our Honorary Fellow, Prof. 

 Weismann, was appended to the German Declaration. 



Dr. Malcolm Burr asked to be allowed to support the 

 resolution. Speaking as Honorary Secretary of the Inter- 

 national Congress of Entomology, and as a student of European 

 affairs for many years, he was glad to associate his name with 

 a resolution in support of a manifesto which was as correct as 

 it was eloquent. 



Mr. H. Rowland-Brown, who had been unable to attend 

 the Council meeting, also supported the motion, and mentioned 



