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tera and two on Lepidoptera. His inclination lay, perhaps, 

 more particularly with the former order. He was elected a 

 Fellow of the Entomological Society in 1895, and died on 

 October 18th, 1908. 



Although we have suffered no drastic disturbance of our 

 mother earth in this island, another island has not fared so 

 well. We have all heard of the fearful earthquake at Messina. 

 During this occurrence one of our members, Mr. J. Piatt 

 Barrett, underwent a very sad experience. He had gone to 

 Messina to stay the winter with his son, Mr. Arthur Barrett, 

 who was living there with his wife and little son. At the 

 time of the earthquake they had all gone to bed, and when 

 the house fell, Mrs. Arthur Barrett and child perished in the 

 ruins. The two men escaped, as Mr. Barrett, in writing to 

 his daughter in England, says, " by a miracle." We con- 

 gratulate Mr. Barrett on his escape. 



Last October, Part XV of Mr. John W. Taylor's Monograph 

 of the " Land and Freshwater Mollusca of the British Isles " 

 was published. It contains a beautiful coloured plate of the 

 Zonitidae with very full accounts of some seven species of 

 that group. The accurate and comprehensive way in which 

 this work is written makes it indispensable to British 

 conchologists. 



Volume II of Mr. J. W. Tutt's " Natural History of 

 British Butterflies " was completed last spring. It deals 

 with the " Hairstreaks " and some of the " Blues." " There 

 has never been anything published, on any large group of 

 insects, approaching the completeness and thoroughness of 

 this work." It is truly most exhaustive in the treatment of 

 the species considered. The life-like illustrations of the 

 larvae and of the ova from photographs by Messrs. H. Main 

 and A. E. Tonge, and the structural details from photo- 

 micrographs by Mr. F. Noad Clark, form a valuable addition 

 to this work, so necessary to the student of the Rhopalocera, 

 whether he confines his study to British species or takes the 

 lepidoptera of the whole world. 



Two more of those companionable volumes of the " Way- 

 side and Woodland " series have also been issued during the 

 year : the second volume of " The Moths of the British 

 Isles," by Mr. South, and "Wayside and Woodland Ferns," 

 by Mr. Step. 



These are just the books to pack into one's portmanteau 

 when preparing for the delightful, but alas too rare, holiday 

 in the country. 



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