212 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



Waterliouse, and Rev. G. Wheeler, with power to add to their 

 number. — Geoege Wheeler, M.A., Hon. Sec. 



The Manchester Entomological Society. — January 3rd. — 

 Annual Meeting. — Election of Officers for 1912. — Mr. W. Buckley 

 gave the Presidential Address for the year — " Entomology and the 

 Microscope," and illustrated his remarks with a large number of 

 beautiful slides. — Mr. J. H. Watson exhibited Saturnia ccplialarice 

 var. harversoni, from Higher Armenia ; in a pupa kept for tw^o years 

 he had found a living dipterous parasite. — Mr. R. N. Earwaker 

 showed the larvae (feeding on the fungus Polyporus radiatus) and the 

 imago of the beetle Orchesia micans, from Cheltenham. — Mr. B. H. 

 Crabtree showed a series of Lujjerina gueneei. — A. W. Boyd, M.A., 

 Ho7i. Secretary . 



RECENT LITERATURE. 



British Butterflies. By A. M. Stewart. London : Adam & Charles 

 Black. 1912. Pp. i-viii, 1-88. (Peeps at Nature Series. 

 Edited by Rev. C. A. Hall.) 

 Although this little book deals with a subject already much and 

 often handled, we venture to say it will admirably fill a place not yet 

 occupied. It contains some ninety pages of attractive letterpress, 

 not overburdened with detail, but "nevertheless setting forth all that 

 is necessary to the tyro. One could only wish that the life-histoi'ies 

 had been more fully dealt with in- some species. The eight coloured 

 plates produced direct by the three-colour process are really mar- 

 vellously well executed, and lose nothing in being somewhat re- 

 duced ; they should entirely do away with any difficulties of identi- 

 fication — even those of the merest novice. It is easy to see that 

 the introductory chapters are the work of a thoroughly practical 

 entomologist ; but we should have liked to see the tracing-clotli 

 method of setting at least mentioned, being as it is at least as 

 rapid and quite as effective as the Paisley method. N D R 



Hoio to Use the Microscope; a Guide for the Novice. By the Rev. 

 C. A. Hall. London : Adam & Charles Black. 1912. 

 Pp. i-viii, 1-88. 

 This useful little book on the microscope is apparently uniform 

 with the ' British Butterflies ' already noticed, and equally well got- 

 up. Although the twenty plates, taken direct from photo-micrographs, 

 are of course none of them in colours, yet, taken in conjunction with 

 the drawings in the text, they cover a sufficiently wide and varied 

 range of subject to interest the uninitiated, for whom the book is 

 intended, in at least a few branches of the science of microscopy. 

 The text, too, contains a wealth of useful advice and instruction, and 

 we are glad to see a very large proportion of it has been devoted to 

 the explanation of the apparatus necessary and of its uses, and also 

 of the chief methods of preparation. These, after all, are the points 

 upon which the novice needs help ; for the application of them he can 

 usually be trusted to look after himself. We heartily recommend 

 the book. ^_ ^_ j^_ 



