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thorpe, to whom the felicitations of the Staff and Subscribers of The 
Entomologist’s Record are offered herewith.—H.EK.P. 
The wife and daughter of our correspondent Signior Orazio Querci 
are going now to colleet for a few weeks in the great Sibilini Moun- 
tains of the Piceno (1,300m.). As soon as the butterflies taken in the 
Sicilian trip are set we shall publish an account of the trip and its 
results. 
The Annual Congress of the South-Eastern Union of Scientific 
Societies held a satisfactory meeting under the Presidency of Sir Daniel 
Morris, K.C.M.G., at Linnean Society’s Rooms, Burlington House, 
from May 29th to June 1st. There was, as usual lately, but little 
natural history dealt with. A very interesting, and at the present 
time most useful discussion took place on ‘ Mosquitos in England,” 
opened by Sir Donald Ross, K.C.B., F.R.S. There was also an after- 
noon visit to the Horniman Museum, led by Dr. H. 8. Harrison, A 
strong Botanical Section has been formed under the chairmanship of 
Professor G. 8. Boulger, F.L.8,, and the Report presented by them 
recorded much progress. We look forward to the establisnment of a 
Zoological Section under an able chairman in the near future. The 
success of such sections as these will do much to remove the bias in 
the Union hitherto supreme, in favour of Archeological Studies. To 
replace the six retiring members of the Council the following were 
elected by the Delegates to the Congress :—Mr. A. N. Butt, F.R.Hist.S. 
(Hampstead Soc.) ; Mr. R. C. Frost (Woolwich Soc.); Mr. J. H. Hop- 
kinson, F.L.8., F.Z.S. (Herts. Soc.) ; Mr. E. L. Pontifix, M.A, (Tun- 
bridge Wells Soc.); Hr. H. Sparks (Hastbourne Soc.) ; Mr. Hy. J. 
Turner, F'.K.S. (South London Soc.). . 
Mr. G. B. Routledge has not been Secretary of the Carlisle Natural 
History Society, as stated in the last number of the magazine, but has 
previously been its President. Mr. F. H. Day has been the Secretary 
for nearly the whole of the past twenty years. 
The Canadian Entomologist for April contains short accounts of 
the various public and private collections of insects existing in the 
maritime provinces of Canada, Studies of Canadian Spiders in 1917, 
with notes and descriptions of many new species of Diptera, Hymen- 
optera, etc. 
There is a short article in the Hnt. News entitled ‘“‘ The Generic 
Bugbear,”’ which contains a few apt remarks. ‘‘ Those who refrain 
from subdividing large genera, on the ground that they are facilitating 
the remembrance of names, are likely to exaggerate the importance 
of their service.” ‘The idea that few generic names facilitate remem- 
bering is not a fact, and even, if it were true, would be worthless in 
practical application. You can remember one generic name better 
than a dozen, but you can not remember one hundred names in one 
genus as easily as you can one hundred names in a dozen genera.” 
‘The generic name does not increase the difficulty of remembering 
the name of a species any more than the surname increases the diffi- 
culty in remembering the name of a man. If every one hundred of 
your acquaintances had the same surname, do you think you could 
remember their names more easily?” ‘* The taxonomists who object 
to genera have adopted the wrong study.” “If they distinguish 
sroups which they will not designate with single words, their generic 
determinations are probably erroneous.” 
