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ducing such good results. Photography is also playing an 

 important part in many other branches of stud}-. Mr. Main's 

 records of Lepidoptera in their natural resting positions, 

 and Messrs. Step, Lucas, Dennis, and others' botanical and 

 other studies have proved welcome and instructive additions 

 to many of our meetings. 



An event of the year was the holding of a special exhibi- 

 tion in the Society's rooms on Saturday, March ioth. The 

 exhibits were both numerous and interesting, and despite the 

 misfortune of a particularly wet evening it was well attended, 

 and may be regarded as a successful undertaking. I would 

 take this opportunity of tendering the thanks of the Society 

 to the management of the Home and Foreign Produce 

 Exchange (our landlords), and especially to Mr. C. J. 

 Higginson, their secretary, for the use of the rooms on the 

 occasion, free of all cost ; also to all those members and 

 friends of the Society, who, in many ways, contributed to 

 the success of the evening. 



Books, good, bad, and indifferent, roll from the press at 

 such a rate now-a-days that it is impossible to notice them 

 all, but there are one or two in which this Society doubtless 

 takes a special interest that should perhaps be mentioned. 



" The Lepidoptera of the British Islands," by Chas. G. 

 Barrett. The publication of this work was commenced some 

 fourteen years ago in serial form, and the parts have con- 

 tinued to appear at more or less regular intervals up to the 

 present time. On the death of the author it was found that 

 the material for the continuation of the work, to the end of 

 the Tortrices, was far advanced, and the publishers were 

 fortunate in securing the services of Mr. Richard South to 

 carry through that part of the work, the conclusion of which 

 will be reached almost immediately, and there the work will 

 probably stop. The material for the Tineina is, I understand, 

 very far from complete, and the publishers have not, so far as I 

 am aware, been successful in securing the services of an editor 

 who would be willing to take this section in hand on similar 

 lines to those of the earlier volumes. Although it must be 

 regretted that so great a work should be thus left incomplete, 

 it must not be forgotten that since its inception our ideas of 

 classification have undergone considerable change, and it 

 would perhaps be better, if a much-needed work on this group 

 is to be published, that its arrangement should be more in 

 accordance with present day views of the subject. 



" A Natural History of the British Lepidoptera," by J. W. 

 Tutt. Whatever may be our regret at the non-completion 



