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JOURNAL or VARIATION. 
Vou. XIT.: , No. 9. ; >. ..° QEpreMBER 150n, 1900. 
Feeay, 
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The Lancashire and Cheshire Entomological Society : Garden — 
Party (with plate). 
On Saturday, June 23rd, Mr. 8. J: Capper; F.L.S8., F.E.S., gave a a 
garden party to. the members. of the Lancashire and Cheshire 
Entomological Society and other entomological friends, at his residence, 
Huyton Park, Liverpool. There was a large gathering, and the visitors 
fully appreciated the kindness of their host. Ever since the founda- 
tion of the Society, now twenty-three years ago, Mr. Capper has been 
the President, and-has been associated with men whose names stand 
high in the elucidation of our insular insect fauna. ‘All the older — 
lepidopterists know of. the ‘keen rivalry that. existed between. the - 
Lancashire and southern collectors, and are also well aware how well 
the northern men held their own in field work, especially in the 
working out of the life-histories of the Micro-Lepidoptera, whilst the 
younger entomologists have also been well to the fore, as the lists for 
the county, compiled by Dr. Ellis, fully show. - Just how much of the 
excellent results shown by the Lancashire lepidopterists is due to Mr. 
Capper it would be difficult to say, but year after year he has,. by 
sympathetic help, by kind instruction, and by a liberal generosity, 
aided all the recruits who have joined the ranks of the Society, and his 
large collection, probably-anequalled in. the northern counties for its 
TCHS in ame aberrations and local forms and races, has been at 
the service of all who wished to consult its contents. His educational 
collections are also widely known, and the young (and old) entomologists 
of Lancashire and Cheshire hay e always found in Mr. Capper a generous 
helper and friend. We understand that at the present time Mr. Mosley 
is engaged in painting the best. marked aberrations in the collection, 
and that some 400 have already been done, but we do not know yet how 
these are to be published so that they. may be of general value to 
science, and so,that the students of variation may be able to gain the 
greatest possible good from the specimens thus reproduced from this 
collection. One could wish that wealthy amateurs like Mr. Capper, 
Mr. Webb, &c., would publish figures of the best aberrations in their 
collections for general use. Perhaps photography will enable them to 
do this cheaply ere long. 
’ A glance at our photograph will show the strength of the 
Lancashire and Cheshire entomologists. A society that contains names 
like those of Dr. Ellis, the compiler of the Lancashire and Cheshire 
lists of Lepidoptera and Coleoptera, Mr. R. Newstead, one of the first 
