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Papilio dardanus from Madagascar across the continent of 

 Africa. 



The address was followed hy a paper by the Hon. N. C 

 Rothschild, M.A., F.E.S., on the subject of " Nature Reserves," 

 in which he advocated the co-operation of naturalists and 

 all nature-lovers to secure and maintain the fast-vanishing 

 primitive areas of the United Kingdom. 



In the afternoon, in the Economic and Pathological Section 

 (President, Prof. L. O. Howard, U.S.A. ; Vice-Pres., Prof. R. 

 Newstead, F.E.S.; Secretary, ]\rr. H. Scott, M.A., F.E.S.), Sir 

 Daniel Morris read a paper for Mr. W. A. Ballou, dealing 

 with "Some Entomological Problems in the West Indies," 

 and especially with the introduction of predaceous insects 

 as the natural enemies of insect pests, etc., on cotton and 

 sugar-cane. In the same section, on Wednesday, August 7th 

 (President, Herr J. Jablonowski (Hungary) ; Vice-Pres., Mr. 

 R. L. Perkins, F.E.S.; Secretary, Mr. J. C. Moulton, F.E.S.), 

 the president gave a long and illuminating account, with 

 lantern slides, of the methods employed for " The destruction 

 of Stauronolus maroccanus in Hungary," and "The destruc- 

 tion of Cochylis and Eudeniis in vineyards " ; Mr. A. G. L. 

 Rogers, M.A., F.E.S., outlined a scheme for "The necessary 

 investigation with relation to Insect and Fungus Enemies 

 of Plants, preliminary to Legislation," and Prof. F. V. 

 Theobald, M.A., F.E.S., gave an account of the "Aphides 

 attacking cultivated Peas, and the allied species of the genus 

 Macrosiphum." On Thursday, the section sitting under the 

 presidency of Dr. Gordon Hewitt (Canada), B.Sc, F.E.S. 

 (Vice-Pres., M. V. Ferrant ; Secretary, Mr. H. Rowland- 

 Brown, M.A., F.E.S. ), listened to an extremely interesting 

 paper by Dr. Stephen A. Forbes, U.S.A., on " Simulimn and 

 Pellagra in Illinois," a summary of his studies of the species 

 in relation to new cases of pellagra in asylums. An amusing 

 discussion followed on a paper apparently designed to demon- 

 strate the virtues of a new commercial specific for killing flies. 



The second day's proceedings of the General Meeting and 

 the Section devoted to nomenclature (President, Prof. E. B. 

 Poulton, F.R.S. ; Vice-Pres., Herr K. Kert^sz ; Secretary, Dr. 

 K, Jordan, Ph.D., F.E.S.) drew perhaps the largest and most 



