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On Saturday morning at the delegates' meeting further reports 

 were received from committees, and the thanks of the Congress voted 

 to officers and the local committees, hosts and hostesses, to whom 

 the great success of the Congress was due. Following this final 

 business meeting, lectures were delivered by Mr. E. A. Martin on 

 some " Problems of Coast Erosion," and Mr. Ehys Jenkins on 

 " The Beginnings of the Alum Industry in England." In the 

 afternoon excursions — archaeological, botanical and geological — 

 were made to Corfe Castle and the neighbouring moors and to 

 Swanage. 



So ended a most delightful Congress, which was attended by six 

 of oar members. It is a matter for regret that a larger number do 

 not avail themselves of the advantages accruing through our affilia- 

 tion with the South-Eastern Union. The gatherings are held 

 under exceptionally favourable conditions, in the best month of the 

 year, the lectures are educational, and the excursions, led by the 

 most capable local authorities, introduce one to the finest localities 

 for natural history work, and there is every facility for making the 

 acquaintance of kindred spirits, not only of the locality in which 

 the Congress is held, but also of workers from all parts of the 

 South-Eastern counties. One lives at rather high pressure, for a 

 good week's work is compressed into half the time ; but the experi- 

 ence is stimulating, and something to look back upon with pleasure. 

 Is it too much to hope that at next year's Congress at Brighton, 

 under the presidency of one of our own members, the South 

 London Entomological and Natural History Society will be repre- 

 sented by a far larger number ? 



JULY 9th, 1914. 

 Mr. A. E. GiBBs, F.L.S., F.E.S., Vice-Pn'sident, in the chair. 



Mr. L. W. Newman remarked on the difficulty usually met with 

 in killing anthrocerids (zygajnids), and said that he had found 

 immersion in petrol for a few moments caused instant death and 

 did not cause the slightest damage to the specimens, which were fit 

 to be set as soon as the temporary rigor had passed away. 



Mr. Newman exhibited living larvfB of Qastropacha ilicifoUa from 

 ova laid by the female captured last year at Cannock Chase, and of 

 Celerio (jallu taken in North Cornwall, together with the parent 

 imago of the former species and a curiously suffused and obscure 

 form of what was supposed to be DUmiluncia caj'sinci)la. 



