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Perkins, who had been sent to investigate the islands by a committee 

 appointed by the Royal Society and the British Association. 



Mr. McLachlan was of opinion that no definite demarcation of regions 

 existed, but that all the regions overlapped ; in any case, the retention 

 of Palsearctic and Nsearctic as separate provinces was not warranted on 

 entomological data. He thought that at the close of the glacial period some 

 insects, instead of going north, were dispersed southwards, and that the 

 present geographical distribution of some forms might thus be accounted 

 for. The discussion was continued by Mr. Osbert Salvin, Mr. J. J. Walker, 

 Herr Jacoby, Mr. Champion, Mr. Elwes, and Professor Meldola. 



The Rev. T. A. Marshall communicated " A Monograph of British 

 Braconidae," Part VI. 



Mr. J. W. Tutt read a paper entitled " An attempt to correlate the 

 various Systems of Classification of the Lepidoptera recently proposed by 

 various authors." — H. Goss, Hon. Secretary. 



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The Life of Richard Owen. By his Grandson, the Eev. Richard 

 Owen, M.A. With the scientific portions revised by 

 C. Davies Sherborn. Also an Essay on Owen's position 

 in Anatomical Science by the Right Hon. T. H. Huxley, 

 F.R.S. With Portraits and Illustrations. 2 vols. 8vo. 

 London : John Murray. 1894. 



In * The Zoologist' for January, 1893, we gave a brief 

 memoir of the distinguished naturalist who had then lately 

 passed away, and whose 'Life' is now before us. In view of 

 this notice there will be no need now either to repeat or amplify 

 the biographical details already given, or to state facts which 

 must be well known to the majority of our readers. Those of 

 them who may take up the two volumes lately published by a 

 grandson of the deceased will be well repaid by their perusal. 

 In them they will find narrated the story of the early life and 

 struggles of a young man aspiring to fame in the medical pro- 

 fession ; his trials and troubles, overcome by sheer energy and 

 fixity of purpose, and his gradual ascent of the ladder of fame 

 culminating in his attainment of the highest position as an 

 anatomist and palaeontologist. Incidentally we see him at his 

 daily work in the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons, and 



