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Cumberland, and other parts of the United Kingdom ; also a long and 

 varied series of Coremia fluctuata. 



Mr. H. Goss exhibited, for Mr. W. Borrer, jun., of Hurstpierpoint, a 

 photograph of a portion of a nest of Vespa vulgaris which had been built 

 with the object of concealing the entrance thereto and protecting the whole 

 nest from observation. He also read notes on the subject, which had been 

 communicated to him by Mr. Borrer. 



The Hon. Walter Rothschild communicated a paper entitled " Notes on 

 a collection of Lepidoptera made by Mr. Wm. Doherty in Southern Celebes 

 during August and September, 1891." He also sent for examination the 

 types of the new species described therein. 



Dr. Sharp read a paper entitled " On the eggs of an Hemipterous Insect 

 of the family Reduviida." — H. Goss and W. W. Fowlee, Hon. Sees. 



NOTICES OF NEW BOOKS, 



Poultry for the Table and Market versus Fancy Fowls. With an 

 Exposition of the Fallacies of Poultry Farming. By W. B. 

 Tegetmeier, F.Z.S. 8vo. London : Horace Cox. 1892. 



As an authority on poultry and pigeons, Mr. Tegetmeier's 

 name is so well known that anything from his pen on this subject 

 is sure to be worth reading, and practical. The object of this 

 his latest book is, by exposing certain fallacies and stating certain 

 plain truths, to increase the quantity of eggs produced in this 

 country, and to improve the quality of marketable poultry. Not 

 that Mr. Tegetmeier is opposed to the keeping of purely orna- 

 mental poultry as such, or to the holding of poultry shows by 

 those who are pleased with the cultivation of fancy breeds ; but 

 he evidently considers that poultry shows, as ordinarily conducted, 

 do not sufficiently influence and encourage the production of 

 marketable and useful poultry. Indeed he goes so far as to say 

 on his first page, as the result of an experience of half a century, 

 that no one breed of fowls has been taken in hand by the fancier 

 that has not been seriously depreciated as a useful variety of 

 poultry. At present the aim of the exhibitor is not to breed 

 fowls for any useful purpose, but to produce them in accordance 

 with the requirements of the fancier, in order to win prizes, so as 

 to sell birds at enormous prices as winners, which are likely to 



