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all men of military age being called up has disorganised various. 
services involved, ‘Further, the continual troubles, national and 
domestic, produced by the war, which also doubtless reaches all 
human beings in the various nations at war, have not spared me more 
than any one else. But I must recognise that studies in entomology, 
when illness allowed me to devote myself to it, has often resulted in 
patience and even a measure of rest, in the midst of our anxieties, so 
acutely painful and continuous.” 
There follows a long quotation from the Presidential address of 
Guenée to the Entomological Society of France in 1849, in which he 
eloquently pictures how entomology, like any other science, benefits its 
votaries in many indirect ways, in affording a consolation for almost 
all the ills of life. The quotation seems very apt for war times such as 
we now suffer from, or for those of 1870 in France. M. Oberthur adds. 
that Guenée might have added the enjoyment of friendships it promotes. 
One would like to reproduce the poetic and practical eloquence of the 
rest of this preface, but unless quoted in full as written, one would only 
spoilit. But, alas, after releasing himself for a season in these eloquent 
sentences from the worries that affect us all, he has to finish in equally 
noble and poetic words in deploring the savagery of our enemies, and 
stating some of their titles to eternal infamy.—T.A.C. 
THE Seconp AnnuaL Report or THE LancasHIRE AND CHESHIRE 
Fauna Commitrer, Darwen, 1916.—Dr. W. M. Tattersall, the Keeper 
of the Manchester Museum, the University, Manchester, has forwarded 
to us a copy of the above report. It consists of the Report read to the 
annual meeting and the reprints of the various sectional reports which 
have appeared at the instance of the Committee in the Lancashire and 
Cheshire Naturalist. This committee deals with all orders, and as the 
various workers send in their contributions they will be considered and 
published in due course. Among others the following papers have 
already appeared during the past year :— 
(1) ‘“‘ Hemiptera Homoptera in Lancashire and Cheshire,” by Oscar 
Whittaker, F.E.S. 
(2) ‘‘ Report on Aphidae,” by A. W. Rhymer-Roberts, M.A. 
(3) ‘‘ Gall Midges and Gall Mites at Grange-over-Sands,” by BR. 8. 
Bagnall, F.L.8. 
(4) “* Wood-lice and Myriapods at Grange-over-Sands,” by R. 8S. 
Bagnall, F.L.S. 
(5) “ Acari at Grange-over-Sands,” by Rev. J. E. Hull, M.A. 
(6) “ Homoptera at Grange-over-Sands,” by R. S. Bagnall, F.L.S. 
) “On some Arthropods, Arachnida, and Myriapoda observed in 
1915,” by A. Randall Jackson, M.D., D.Sc. 
(8) ‘*‘ Hymenoptera of a Suburban Garden,” by A. Randall Jackson, 
M.D., D.Sc. 
Further reports are to hand and will be published in due course. A 
scheme for the compilation of a Bibliography relating to the Fauna for 
the use of workers has been considered, and no doubt an early oppor- 
tunity will be taken to carry the scheme into effect. Already many 
new records for the two counties have been made, and in some groups 
species new to Britain have been announced. With an organisation 
like this individual work will not be in vain, and whatever is done will 
be put in its proper place, while the knowledge gained will be readily 
available as a starting point for subsequent observers. We wish this 
work a hearty success.—H.J.T. 
