166 Notes and Conments. 
to find that there is a marked increase of visitors to the 
Aquarium; and, as the Report points out, ‘an institution 
where over fifteen thousand summer visitors are shown a 
number of the most interesting of our common sea-side animals 
and plants in a living condition and among natural surroundings, 
with labels, pictures, and other information, must surely be 
doing something to encourage nature study, and to foster an 
appreciation of biology.’ Perhaps the most interesting exhibit 
was ‘the Octopus of the Irish Sea, A/edone ctrrosa’ (which 
The Irish Sea Octopus. 
we are enabled to figure herewith). A good supply of this 
Cephalopod was obtained in the early spring, and the tank in 
which they lived was a great attraction to the visitors. As an 
appendix to this Report is printed an admirable address on 
‘Some Problems of the Sea,’ by Prof. Herdman. Mr. Andrew 
Scott has also some useful ‘ Notes on Special Plankton Investi- 
gations,’ which, like the other articles in the Report, is well 
illustrated. 
LANCASHIRE AND CHESHIRE ENTOMOLOGISTS. 
The vigorous Lancashire and Cheshire Entomological 
Society has just issued its thirtieth annual report,* and gives 
evidence of a successful year’s work. It contains a record of 
all the important exhibits at the meetings; the Vice-President’s 
address, by Prof. T. Hudson Beare; a portion of ‘A Preliminary 
Catalogue of the Hemiptera-Heteroptera of Lancashite and 
Cheshire’ (a valuable contribution), by Oscar Whittaker ; and a 
‘Note on the Remarkable Race of Agrotzs ashworthit,’ by Mr. 
W. Mansbridge. A portrait of Mr. F. N. Pierce appears as 
frontispiece. 
* Fifty pages. Price 2/6. ‘ Visltor’ Printing Works, Southport. 
Naturalist, 
