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SCIENCE-GOSSIP. 



I think an appeal made to rich men of science 

 would not be in vain for an endowment sufficient to 

 establish the depot, and pa}- caretaker and secretary. 

 At first these offices might be honorary. If properly 

 conducted such an institution would merit success, 

 and be a distinct advance upon present methods. I 

 have thousands of duplicates, and I have friends who 

 have others for disposal in this way. Members are 

 asked to contribute duplicates only, so in getting rid 

 of their own they place at their own command the 

 duplicates of every other member of the brotherhood, 

 which would be a distinct gain. The journal, 

 Science-Gossip, might 1j> invited to become the 

 medium of communication by members, and for the 

 discussion of the besl scientific methods of preserva- 

 tion, mounting, and general preparation of spedmens 

 for scientific study. 



Hugh. L. Orr. 

 1 86, My Lady's Road, Belfast. 



NOTICES OF SOCIETIES. 



Ordinary meetings arc marked +, excursions * ; names of 

 persons folloiving excursions are of Conductors. \ Lantern 

 Ilki-strations. 

 North London Natural History Society. 

 Nov. 2.— tA Holiday in the Hig-hlands. J. A. Simes. 

 ,, II. — '^South Kensing^tbn Museum. S. Austin. 

 ,, i6. — +Life Histories of Woodlice and other little 

 known Animals. T. B. Casserley. 



Tunbridge Wells Natural History and Philosophical 



Society. 

 Nov. 3. — ^Moorish Architecture in Spain. Dr. H. Habgood. 

 17.— SAn Atoll. C. W. Andrews, B.Sc. F.G.S. 

 23.— Dust. W. Carter, M.A. 

 R. R. Hiitchiiison^ Hon. Sec, Belmont, Princes Street. 



South London Entomological and Natural History 



Society. 

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23.— More Lazy Days. R. Adkin, F.E.S. 

 Dec. 14. — Meteorites. J. T. Carring:ton. 



Stanley Edivnrds, F.E.S., Hon. Sec., 



Hiberuia Chambers, Lo7idon BHdge, S.E. 

 Lambeth Field Club. 



Nov. 6. — ^November Meteors. A. C. D. Crommelin, 

 F.R.S.A. 

 ,, II. — *To the Zoolog-ical Gardens. 

 „ 20. — Geological Notes. A. Collier. 



F. P. Perks, Hon. Sec., 41. St. Martin's Lane, W.C. 

 Essex Field Club. 



Oct. 27-2S. — Annual Cryptog-amlc and Botanical Meeting-, 

 Epping Forest. 



IVilliani Cole, Hon. Sec, Bjickkurst Hill. 

 Geologists' Association of London, 



Nov. 3. — Conversazione in Library University Colleg-e, 

 8 p.m. Percy Eviery^ Hon. Sec. 



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ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. 



J.S. (Roxburgh). — The insect ( Tropicornis rufipcs), is one of 

 the Hemiptera, or plant bugs. It is not uncommonly'found by 

 beating oak, bhcli, ha-'-el, etc.. into an inverted umbrella; It 

 occurs throughout Britain. 



C.S. (Forest Gate). — The specimen of white powdery s 

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 the specimen forvvarded, was much dried up and no appearance 

 of any insect could be found. The white powder is suggestive 

 of some scale insect (Coccidae) in its earlier stages. Your 

 friends need not fear to eat the fruit, for even if a few of the 

 animals were swallowed, they would soon be digested. 



C.F.T. (Whitchurch). — The fungi' are all of one species, 

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CHANGE OF ADDRESS. 



C. S. Coles, from Hoe Moor House, Hambledon, to the 

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Collection of about 400 English and Foreign silver and 

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