98 SCIENTIFIC SURVEY OF LEICESTER AND DISTRICT 
of London and on local societies the danger of the extermination of 
species of rare insects by ‘ over-collecting,’ not so much by collectors 
who were ‘ simply foolish ’ as by those who collected for dealers. The 
London Society appointed a Protection Committee. The Societies of 
Northampton, Birmingham, Glasgow, and Marlborough concurred. 
Lists of insects of which the captures should be limited or inhibited were 
circulated. 
An interesting paper on ‘ The Scientific Aspect of Entomology ’ 2° was 
read before this Section in January 1898 by J. W. Tutt, F.E.S., in which 
he enlarged on the great change in the science which had come about 
since the publication of Darwin’s Origin of Species (1859). ‘ The “‘ how ” 
and ‘‘ why ” of the things rather than the things themselves became the 
main consideration of the student, and the sleepy, dry-as-dust science, 
represented by the herbaria and the cabinets, had breathed into it the 
breath of movement, of life, of intellectual possibilities hitherto never 
conceived by its votaries.’ 
Mr. Frederick Bates,?? a brother of ‘ Bates of the Amazon,’ was a member 
of this Section. He made a collection of Coleoptera, which after his 
death was purchased by the British Museum. In 1907 Mr. Herbert 
Ellis, who had been chosen to be President for that year because he was 
considered by all to be the best person to represent the Society during 
the visit of the British Association, gave a really remarkable presidential 
address on social questions, and suggested that there should be a Section 
for Economics. The Section was formed. It has not flagged since its 
formation. 
In the year 1915 a Section for Astronomy was formed. Its first 
meeting was on June 23, 1915. Before Armistice Day there had been 
twenty-one meetings, including one open-air study of the sky. This 
Section was the result of two courses of University Extension lectures. 
Its last meeting was on April 8, 1925. During its short life it owed 
much to Mr. J. W. Durrad, F.R.A.S.,?8 and to Dr. J. E. M. Finch. 
It is hoped that what has been written so far will give the reader an 
intelligible sketch of the study of science in Leicestershire, and of its 
development in Leicester into the co-operative studies of the ‘ Sections ’ 
of the Literary and Philosophical Society. The sketch is, of course, not 
a complete view : it represents the chief stream of such studies. 
In this as in other matters the war was a great break. Post-war is 
other than pre-war. It has been indicated above that the Sections for 
Botany, Astronomy, and Economics did not cease their activities during 
the war. Another piece of work which had begun before the war was 
not suspended. In 1913 Mr. C. J. Bond, F.R.C.S., Mr. E. E. Lowe, 
the Curator of the Museum, and the Rev. J. Wallace Watts, Chairman, 
Vice-Chairman, and Hon. Secretary of the Section for Biology, with 
the approval and the help of the Museum-and Art Gallery Committee, 
gave lectures with practical work on Zoology. These classes were con- 
26 The paper is in vol. iv, pp. 527-539, of the Transactions. 
27 A paper on the Coleoptera of Bradgate Park by him, with a list of 507 species, 
is in the same volume, pp. 170-176. . 
#8 Mr. Durrad designed the table of the sun-dial in Museum Square. 
