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" I aui not in the least afraid to die." If he had a fault it was perhaps that he had, 

 according to Wallace, " the restless curiosity of the child to know the ' what for ?' 

 the 'why?' and the 'how?' of everything." This tendency sometimes led him into 

 speculations beyond his calmer views, that were omitted or modified in subsequent 

 editions of the " Origin."— F. P. P. 



The South London Entomological and Natubal Histoex Society. 

 — The Annual Exhibition was held at the " Bridge House," London Bridge, on 

 Wednesday, the 16th November, 1887, and, notwithstanding the dense fog that 

 prevailed, was attended by about 1000 visitors. 



The exhibits comprised all branches of Natural History, and during the evening 

 the Sciopticon Company gave two displays of micro-photographs. Among the 

 principal Entomological exhibits were those of Mr. McLachlan, European Trichop- 

 tera, &c. ; Mr. S. L. Mosley, life-history of the Hessian fly, Cecidomyia destructor, 

 &c. ; Mr. Eland Shaw, Orthoptera ; Mr. E. G-rut and Mr. Epps, Exotic Coleoptera ; 

 Mr. Lewcock, British DonacicB and Longicornia ; Mr. Billups, British Coleoptera, 

 Hymenoptera, Diptera, &c. ; Mr. Bignell, a case of galls and gall-flies ; Mr. J. H, 

 A. Jenner, Mr. C. H. Morris, and Mr. Cripps, British Coleoptera. In the Order 

 Lepidoptera the exhibits were very numerous. Messrs. C. A. Briggs, A. B. Earn, 

 T. W. Hall, E. Sabine, R. South, S. Webb, British Lyccenm ; Mr. A. H. Jones, 

 European LyccBncB ; Messrs. J. Jenner Weir, S. Edwards, Erohawk, Dannatt, E. 

 Cooke, and the Zoological Society of London, Exotic species ; Mr. Elisha, collection 

 of Tortrices, Tinece, and Pterophori ; Mr. Adkin, Ephestia Kuhniella, with flour 

 affected by the larvae, &c. ; Mr. J. A. Clark, varieties of Z. pyrina, &c. ; Mr. S. 

 Stevens, varieties of British Rhopalocera, specimen of Melitcea Eos, taken in 1802 ; 

 Mr. Machin, Peronea hastiana and cristana ; Mr. C H. Morris, Acidalia immorata ; 

 Mr. Boden, varieties, including one of Ennychia octomaculata, and a species which 

 was not identified ; Mr. Howard Vaughan, Cidaria truncata and C. immanata ; Mr. 

 Gr. Baker, larvse and imagos of Eupithecia nanata and E. Curzoni ; Mr. Tugwell, 

 collection of Noctuce ; Mr. Tutt, Agrotidce and ZygcenidcB ; Mr. Wellman, species 

 of Eupithecia and PterophoridcB, &c. ; Mr. Eedle, life-histories. Among the other 

 exhibitors in this Order were Messrs. Hutchinson (Leominster), R. E. Salwey, 

 Blackall, Druce, Goldthwaite, Percy Euss (Sligo), &c. Messrs. Neighbour and Sons 

 exhibited bees and bee-keeping appliances, and there was a good display of micro- 

 scopic objects, the Society being assisted by Members of the Quekett, South London, 

 and Hackney Microscopical Societies. 



November 2-Uh, 1887. — R. Adkin, Esq., E.E.S., President, in the Chair. 



Messrs. J. Reindorp and W. H. Whiffen were elected Members. 



Mr. Adye exhibited Sj)hinx convolvuli, L., Catocala promissa, Esp., C. sponsa, 

 L., Xylina ornithopus, Kott., X. semibrunnea, Haw., and X. socia, Eott., all from 

 the New Forest ; Mr. Mera, species taken on Wansted Flats ; Mr. C. A. Briggs, a 

 fine variety of Arctia caia, L. ; Mr. Billups, a cocoon of a South American moth, 

 from which over 140 of a parasite of the genus Smicra had emerged ; Mr. Billups 



