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the Society but by many students in entomology and other branches 

 of natural history. 



Numerous items of importance are to be found in the abstract of 

 the business transacted at the meetings, which are held in the even- 

 ings of the second and fourth Thursdays of each month throughout 

 the year. 



The wide range of subjects engaging the attention of the mem- 

 bers is well illustrated by the five papers printed in the present 

 volume. These are :— " Effects of Physical and Chemical Agencies 

 on Lepidoptera" (H. S. Fremlin, M.R.C.S., F.E.S.) ; "House Moths" 

 (A. Sich, F.E.S.) ; " Notes on Hungarian Butterflies " (A. H. Jones, 

 F.E.S.) ; " Insects as Carriers of Disease" (H. S. Fremlin, M.R.C.S., 

 F.E.S.); "Orchids and their Cultivation" (W. J. Kaye, F.E.S.). 

 In addition to various other matters of interest adverted to by the 

 President (Mr. A. Sich) in his address is an exceedingly able discourse 

 on the antiquity of natural history study. 



A Survey and Becord of Woohvich and West Kent. Edited by C. H. 

 Geinling, T. a. Ingram, M.A., LL.D., B. C. Polkinghoene, 

 B.Sc, F.C.S. (the late), and others. Pages i-viii and 1-526. 

 Woolwich : Labour Representation Printing Co., Ltd. 1909. 



This volume is the result of a remarkable effort of local co- 

 operation in scientific study. The South-Eastern Union of Scientific 

 Societies having accepted an invitation to hold its Twelfth Annual 

 Congress in Woolwich, in June, 1907, a local Committee was formed, 

 and it resolved to commemorate the Congress by making^a series of 

 surveys of the district and publishing them as a local scientific hand- 

 book. This resolution has been carried out by the united labour of a 

 large number of workers, and the surveys form an invaluable book of 

 reference to local students of natural history. 



The Geological Section, pp. 3-30, is edited by W. Whitaker, B.A., 

 F.R.S., F.G.S. 



The Botanical Section, pp. 31-230, is a Flora of Woolwich and 

 West Kent, edited by J. F. Bevis, B.A., B.Sc, and W. H. Griffin. 

 More than two thousand species are recorded, with notes on the 

 nature of the habitat and actual localities w4iere found, with dates. 

 More than half the entries appear here for the first time, and several 

 new county records have been established. 



Mr. J. W. Tutt, F.E.S., has edited the Zoological Section (pp. 231- 

 440). In this part the annotated list of Coleoptera runs to 53 pages, 

 and comprises over 1200 species ; whilst the list of the Lepidoptera, 

 with localities, &c., extends to 87 pages. Of Hemiptera, 223 species 

 of Heteroptera and 150 of Homoptera are entered ; this list is founded 

 on the w^ork of Mr. W. West, of Greenwich. Owing apparently to 

 a dearth of observers in the past, some orders of the Insecta are 

 not mentioned, and Neuroptera is only represented by 8 species of 

 Odonata. 



There is also a section on Archaeology, a Survey of the Scientific 

 Industries along the Thames from the Ravensbourne to the Darenth, 

 and a note on Woolwich as a Centre for Photography. 



