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more pleasing because so many peoples and languages were 

 represented. England was naturally in the majority, then 

 North America, Germany, Belgium, France, Austria, Holland, 

 Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Luxembourg, Egypt, Chile, Canada, 

 the Sandwich Islands, British East Africa, and Borneo. 



By a vote of the General Committee at the end of the Con- 

 gress, a Central Commission was established in all the leading 

 countries, in connection with local societies, to unite them, 

 and to supply, if possible, definite answers to all entomological 

 questions by recognized authority. This is an important step 

 forward, and gives assurance of sound basis which can be relied 

 upon to end the disunion and misunderstandings formerly too 

 frequent. 



Finally, there was the visit to the seat of Lord Eothschild at 

 Tring, with the splendid and unique Museum of his son and 

 heir. Greeting his guests in three languages, he paid a most 

 grateful tribute to his old friend and counsellor, Dr. Albert 

 Giinther, whom he had to thank for turning a boyish love for 

 catching butterflies to an earnest resolve to devote his life to the 

 study of Nature, especially concerning birds and butterflies. 

 What he has accomplished is well known to us, notably in his 

 classical work upon Sphingidae, and here we were strikingly 

 reminded of it. He also, like his comrades at Oxford, had pro- 

 vided us with special examples of the richness and variety of 

 specimens contained in the Museum. It was the Ornithoptera 

 of New Guinea and the Indian Archipelago, in all their gorgeous 

 colourings, to which attention was specially directed. Where 

 less favoured mortals think themselves lucky in possessing a 

 single pair, here were magnificent rows exhibiting every possible 

 variety. 



A walk through the beautiful garden, radiant with flowers, a 

 glance at the superb stables, a drive of twenty minutes to the 

 station, and the Second International Entomological Congress 

 was at an end. 



Fritz N. Wichgraf. (Translated by L. E.-B.) 



A HOLIDAY IN NOEFOLK. 

 By the Eev. W. G. Whittingham, M.A., F.E.S. 



In a year which will long be remembered for the wettest 

 and most disastrous August in our memories, an account of a 

 collecting holiday which was in some respects distinctly successful, 

 and had some unusual features, will perhaps be read with more 

 interest than it would afford under more ordinary conditions. 



An idea had been in my mind for a year or two of taking a 

 collecting holiday on the Broads by the aid of a boat ; and when 



