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valuable Papers published has been correspondingly heavy, but 

 it must be borne in mind that >£75 for 5 Life Compositions 

 has been invested out of the above sum of £971 4s. lid., 

 adding £102 12s. 2d. Stock to the sum already held. 



The Librarian reports that forty volumes, the usual periodicals 

 and publications of Societies, and an unusually large quantity 

 of separata have been added to the Library during the past 

 year, a list of which will be included in Part V of the Transac- 

 tions. Four hundred and seventy-eight volumes have been 

 issued for home use, as against a total of two hundred and 

 ninety-five volumes the previous year. As usual, the Library 

 has been well used for the purpose of reference. 



Report of the Second International Congress or 

 Entomology at Oxford, August 1912.* 



The second International Congress of Entomology assembled 

 on August 4th, and in the evening members were invited to 

 an informal Reception given by Oxford entomologists in the 

 Hall of New College, at which guides, badges (designed by 

 Prof. Selwyn Image, M.A., F.E.S., Slade Professor of Fine 

 Arts), and programmes for the sessions and excursions were 

 issued. 



The Congress was formally opened on Monday morning at 

 10.30, in the theatre of the Oxford University Museum which 

 was placed at the disposition of members throughout the week 

 by the kind permission of the Delegates, and besides rooms 

 for the separate sections, a most convenient and comfortable 

 writing-room was arranged for the use of members, and for 

 the Press. 



In his opening address the President, Prof. E. B. Poulton, 

 M.A., D.Sc, F.R.S. etc., Hope Professor of Zoology, wel- 

 comed the Congress, laying special stress on the claim of the 

 Oxford University Museum as a place of meeting, as the 

 special scene of early encounters between " Darwinians " and 

 the disciples of the older schools of thought; of Ruskin's 

 teaching and of Westwood's labours in the cause of Entomology. 

 He then proceeded to trace the evolution of the female 



* A detailed Report of the Congress appeared in The Times of 

 Wednesday, August 15th (by H. Rowland-Brown). 



