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Mr. Barraud are using the columns of the now famous little camp 
paper the Balkan News, to find nature students, and to give informa- 
tion. By the bye, Dr. Burr says ‘‘there has been a bad outbreak of 
‘ poet’s rash’ in that worthy journal,’ and from a specimen which one 
of my old boys sent me I quite agree with the remark. In the middle 
of May Dr. Burr reports two species of 7’hats as said to be flying on the 
hillsides, and the arrival of the Bee-eater (Merops apiaster). 
For months we have wondered why the final parts of the Trans. 
Ent. Soc. of London for the year 1915 did not appear. This has ex- : 
plained itself by the arrival of parts iii.-v., the first two of which con- 
tain nearly two hundred pages and no less than 89 plates, including 15 
in colour. In fact, as regards illustration, the issue of the year exceeds 
that of any previous year there being as many as 117 plates in all. 
There are twenty-two papers, sixteen of which deal with Lepidoptera, 
two with Orthoptera, one each to Coleoptera, Diptera, and Neuroptera, 
and one of general entomological interest. Among the first should be 
specially noticed the solution of the long-standing riddle of the later 
life-history of the larva of Lycaena arion, for which our science is in- 
debted to the persistent study of Dr. T. A. Chapman with the aid of 
Mr. H. Donisthorpe and Mr. F. W. Frohawk. 
We regret to hear that Mr. W. EK. Sharp has recently lost his only 
son in the great struggle. He came over with the Canadians and was 
killed in France some weeks ago. 
With much regret we have just heard of the death of one who for 
years has been a familiar face at the meetings of our London Societies, 
and was well known throughout the country for his splendid and witty 
lectures on natural history. Frederic Knock passed away on May 26th, 
at Hastings, where he had been living recently, and was buried at the 
Friends’ Burial Ground, Winchmore Hill, on May 38lst. He was 71 
years of age. 
Our colleague, Mr. Donisthorpe, has received the following very 
interesting letter from the chaplain of H.M.S. ‘« Benbow ”’ :— 
“T must indeed thank you without further delay for the colony of 
scabrinodis and the booklets with the little honey feeding-trough. They 
all arrived in perfect condition and none the worse for their long 
journey. 
‘We have been in action, as you know from the papers, after so 
long a wait. We inflicted very severe loss of ships and men on the 
enemy, though our own losses were heavy. You know the maximum 
loss of the British, and so far only a minimum of the German. This 
ship with the grand fleet was in the fight, and claims one battleship 
and a destroyer as her share. I was lucky enough to see a portion of 
the actual fighting, If only the fog had lifted for the space of fifteen 
minutes we should have accounted for all their ships, for we had them 
cut off from their base by the magnificent tactics of the C-in-C. 
‘At present I hear that the main German naval port is absolutely 
closed to all persons, whereas we, after a few hours, were ready to come 
out with the entire grand fleet for action. 
“ During the action some ruyinodis, which we got ashore and have 
under glass in my cabin, laid about thirty eggs. 
““T will write soon again, when I am not so busy. Again accept 
my sincere thanks for the colony, which I am studying with the help 
of your book and a low power microscope,” Mr, Donisthorpe informs 
