THE ENTOMOLOGIST 



Vol. XXXVII.] SEPTEMBER. 1904. [No. 496. 



VISIT OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY AND 

 ENTOMOLOGICAL CLUB TO OXFORD. 



(Plate VIII.) 



A large gathering of the Members of the Entomological 

 Society and the Entomological Club accepted the kind invitation 

 of the Hope Professor of Zoology to Oxford on July 2nd and 3rd 

 and 4th. Among those who were entertained at dinner by Pro- 

 fessor E. B. Poulton at Jesus College, were Dr. F. A. Dixey, 

 Mr. A. J. Chitty, Mr. J. E. Collin, Mr. Hamilton Druce, Mr. A. H. 

 Jones, Mr. W. J. Lucas, and Mr. H. Rowland-Brown, repre- 

 senting the Council ; Mr. Roland Trimen, Mr. G. H. Verrall, and 

 Professor R. Meldola, past-Presidents, with Commander J. J. 

 Walker, Mr. M. Jacoby, Mr. \V^. M. Geldart, and Mr. H. St. J. 

 Donisthorpe representing the Fellows of the Society. Professor 

 Poulton, replying to a cordial vote of thanks to him proposed 

 by Mr. Trimen, laid stress on the value of these gatherings 

 as tending to promote the interests of entomological science, 

 and said that it was especially notable that he should have 

 beside him three Fellows who had filled the Presidential chair. 

 On Saturday and Sunday the Fellows and Members were further 

 entertained in the Museum, where great progress has been made 

 in the arrangement of the several collections, and in the after- 

 noon a picnic up the Cherwell was organized ; not a few of the 

 party having already taken the opportunity to investigate the 

 fauna of the neighbourhood, under the direction of Mr. A. H. 

 Hamm, of the Museum, and others. The expedition was as 

 great a success as ever : but for some reason the river, usually 

 alive with dragonflies, yielded not a solitary specimen. The 

 coleopterists, however, who landed at a certain fungus-haunted 

 tree, gave a good account of Mycetopliagus multipunctus, and now 

 that Commander Walker has come to anchor permanently in 

 Oxford, we may look for bountiful additions to the rather meagre 

 entomological lists of the county at present in existence. The 



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