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NOTES AND COMMENTS. 
THE BRITISH ASSOCIATION. _ 
The Eighty-third Meeting of the British Association for 
the Advancement of Science will be held in Birmingham from 
September roth to 17th, under the Presidency of Sir Oliver J. 
Lodge, D.Sc., LL.D., F.R.S., Principal of the University of 
Birmingham. The Town Hall will be the Reception Room, 
the various Section Rooms will be in the surrounding buildings, 
and the evening meetings will be held in the Central Hall. 
During the Meeting the principal scientific and literary in- 
stitutions and clubs in the city will be open to visitors, who 
will also have the opportunity of inspecting a number of 
representative manufactories and other places of interest in 
the district. Excursions are being arranged for the Saturday 
to Stratford-upon-Avon, Charlecote Park, and Warwick Castle ; 
Coventry, Stoneleigh Abbey, and Kenilworth Castle ; Banbury, 
Wroxton Abbey, Compton Wynyates, and Broughton Castle ; 
Bromsgrove, Hewell Grange, Graften Manor, Droitwich, 
Hanbury Hall, Mere Hall, Westwood, Salwarpe Court, and 
Hartlebury Castle ; Tewkesbury, Deerhurst, Bredon, Woolas 
Hall, Pershore, Evesham, and Abbey Manor; Worcester ; 
Lichfield and Wall; Sutton Coldfield and Oscott College ; 
the Forest of Arden Villages—Solihull, Knowle, Henley, 
Wootton Wawen, Alcester, and Coughton*Court ; and Malvern, 
British Camp, and Madresfield Court. 
NOMENCLATURE AGAIN. 
In the Entomologist’s Monthly Magazine for May Mr. D. 
Sharp states that the specimen which he had recently des- 
cribed as Haliplus brownet should have been named Haliplus 
browneanus, and H. multimaculatus was so described in error, 
being a lapsus calami for H. multipunctatus. It is a pity the 
proofs were not carefully read, as once a new name is given 
to the world it is a difficult matter to alter it. We don’t like 
these quick nomenclatural changes, (usually referred to as 
“D. Sharp’s’). 
A PUZZLE. 
The following, also from the pen of Mr..D. Sharp, appears 
on the very next page to that just referred to, but we confess 
we are not quite able to follow it:— Hydroporus bilineatus 
Sturm in England.—In 1903 the late Mr .Chitty introduced 
this name to our catalogue, but in Canon Fowler’s new volume 
Mr. Chitty’s species is treated as being H. hopffgarteni Gerh., 
and considered to be distinct from H. bilineatus Sturm. In 
both these respects I believe Fowler is quite correct, and if 
so, it would appear that the latter must be erased from our 
catalogue. This, however, is not the case, as the specimens 
recorded from Sheppey by Fowler as hofffgarteni are the true 
bilineatus Sturm’ ! 
1913 June i O 
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