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Mr. Barrett's new work are usually far from being correct. 

 In that case, I may mention that I myself have taken seven 

 A . latona in the last few years, and I know another collector 

 (who visits the same locality as myself) who took eight this 

 year (1895) alone.' 



" Of other rarities, Mr. Chope mentions in this letter that 

 Major Still and himself ' captured a specimen of LyccBua 

 hcetica,' whilst the ' courses that are being pursued at 

 Starcross for C. hera, which are not at all calculated to 

 further the best interests of entomology, and the advice of 

 the late Mr. Tugwell,' are his reasons for not chronicling 

 the capture of A. cratcegi ; D. piilchella also comes in for 

 notice. Of course, Mr. Butler does not wish to prejudice 

 Mr. Chope's captures, but he thinks, and you no doubt will 

 agree with him, that captures of such a rare species as 

 A. latona in Britain should be thoroughly authenticated. 

 It would appear to be an oversight that the iive specimens 

 captured in 1894 (? 1893) and the three captured in 1895, 

 make, according to Mr. Chope's later calculation, but seven, 

 and it is unfortunate that both specimens are loose on their 

 pins. I have personally written to Mr. Chope since Mr. 

 Butler handed me his letters, but, unfortunately, can get no 

 reply from him. One cannot help thinking that some 

 mistake has occurred, for, speaking of a specimen of dentina, 

 sent by him as atriplicis, he explains the mistake by sup- 

 posing that ' the species must have got mixed by accident 

 in the duplicate cabinet, which sometimes has a nasty way 

 of being tampered with by one's friends.' " 



The President read the following letter, which he had 

 received from Mr. C. A. Briggs : — 



55, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London. 

 January 2^rd, 1896. 



" My Dear Mr. Hall, — I think that you will agree with 

 me that our Society should have some memorial of our late 

 fellow member, Mr. Tugwell, and I am glad that at the 

 dispersal of the remainder of his Natural History effects on 

 Monday last I was able to secure his Herbarium, which, 

 side by side with entomology, had been the work of his 

 lifetime ; and from the catalogue that accompanies it, is 

 apparently an almost complete collection of British plants. 



" I think that no better memorial of him could be found, 

 and have very great pleasure in asking you, as President, to 

 accept it for and on behalf of our Society, and add it to 



