212 THE EEV. F. A. WALKEK, D.D., F.L.S., ON 



I am not sure whether any list is published of the Orthoptera 

 of the Faroe islands ; but certainly there are a good many found 

 in Lapland. 



Locusts do not appear to be desti'uctive in proportion to their 

 size. The very large South. American locusts, of which there are 

 specimens before us, as far as I know are not noted for being 

 specially destructive. Those large red specimens are about the 

 lai'gest, bufe they grow larger than that, and some of them are 

 still more beautifully coloured ; but I have not heard that they 

 are specially destructive. Those which Dr. Walker refers to as 

 most destructive in Southern Europe and Africa are of mediuii". 

 size, but there ai-e two smallest species which are specially 

 destructive. One is a locust which is common in the Mediter- 

 ranean, but is especially destructive in Cyprus, and the other 

 is the Rocky Mountain locust of North America. As far as I 

 remember neither of these measure more than about two inches 

 across the wings. 



The Secretary (Professor Edward Hull, M.A., LL.D.). — I 

 think, Mr. Chairman, that the special interest of Dr. Walker's 

 paper lies in its endeavour to interpret the terms " locust " and 

 " grasshopper " as they are used in Holy Scripture. One can 

 well understand the extreme difficulty that the authors of the 

 Revised Vei'sion must have had in dealing with these Hebrew and 

 Greek terms for insects. It is something like the difficulty that 

 the authors of the Authorized Version must have had in dealing 

 with the names of precious stones. I once, at the request of 

 some publishers, wrote an essay on the precious stones of the- 

 Bible, and I must say when I came to endeavour to discriminate 

 between one kind of precious stone and another I was non- 

 plussed in many cases, and a similar difficulty must have been 

 present with the authors of the two versions. 



It is a great misfortune, I think, that although the authors 

 of the Revised Version were men of great eminence in classical 

 knowledge, yet I do not know that they were advised when 

 dealing with the names of special animal or vegetable forms. 

 We do not know whether they were or not ; but it occurs to me 

 that probably they were not, and that they rested a greal deal 

 upon what might be called the ordinary sense, or at any rate on 

 the meaning of the particular word, as inferred from the context. 



I feel sure that in several cases Dr.' Walker has thrown 



