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is as follows : — Luchon, Hesperia alveus, H. serratulae, and 1 H. 

 foulquieri ; Gavarnie ; H. earthami, H. alveus, H. serratulae, H. 

 malvoides. and Pyrgus sao. — Douglas H. Pearson (F.E.S.), March 

 28th, 1921. 



CURRENT NOTES AND SHORT NOTICES. 



The Hon. Treasurer of the Wicken Fen Fund reminds us that we 

 make an appeal in the "merry month of May" for contributions 

 towards the cost of a watcher to protect the wild life of the place from 

 undue attacks, and to see that no encroachments take place which 

 would be detrimental to the objects of the Trust. At every oppor- 

 tunity the area is added to by the acquisition of any portion which 

 may come in to the market. Annual subscribers are reminded that 

 contributions are now due, and others whose ability and sympathies 

 coincide are hereby earnestly requested to add their names to the list 

 of supporters by sending to Mr. W. G. Sheldon, Youlgreave, S. Croydon, 

 the Hon. Treasurer of the Fund. 



We have been requested by the Hon. Secretary of the Entomo- 

 logical Section of the Birmingham Natural History Society, of which 

 our colleague, Mr. G. T. Bethune-Baker, is the President, to ask our 

 readers if during the coming season they could furnish either by loan 

 or gift a living larva or pupa of any local or rare species of British 

 Lepidoptera to Mr. Foster Newey, who is a delineator of remarkable 

 accuracy and excellence, and is engaged upon a work on the British 

 Lepidoptera. He has already figured the greater proportion of the 

 British Macrolepidoptera, but there are about 240 species and forms 

 which are still in his desiderata. 



The Editor of the Entom. News, who is happily able to dwell with 

 rural surroundings, in the course of his varied occupations, states that 

 his attention was turned to the long period in the history of civilised 

 peoples in which progress in Zoology was very slow, and felt how 

 difficult it was for a present day zoologist to realise what must have 

 been the mental attitude of many a cultured Egyptian, Greek, or 

 Roman towards insects. He was suddenly called to more mundane 

 matters by the advent of the butcher, who when his business was 

 transacted observed that the coming winter was likely to be cold only 

 in its latter part — " because he had been feeling the caterpillars 

 along the road and they were hard to the touch onlt/ at their hind ends." 



The following leading article which appeared in The Times on 

 March 3rd last, refers to our esteemed colleague, Professor W. M. 

 Wheeler, the eminent biologist and myrmecologist.— " Highbrow " 

 Phrases. — " Professor W. M. Wheeler, a learned and witty American 

 biologist, has recently addressed a genial remonstrance to his scientific 

 fellow-citizens on their devotion to resounding phrases. His remarks 

 deserve a wider application, and are very pertinent to ourselves. The 

 current watchword of the elect, he says, the "highbrow" toast" 

 of the moment, is " organization." Wayward, individual, pursuit of 

 knowledge is out of fashion. It is distasteful to the bureaucratic 

 spirit of the age, it tends to overlapping of effort, and it exalts personal 

 reputations, possibly and regrettably those of obscure unofficial people. 

 The committee is the thing. The problems must be set, the parts 

 allotted, the results received, edited, and issued by the authority of 



