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THE YOUNG NATURALIST. 



owner of the Entomologist is going to change things, going to charge as ad- 

 vertisements the various notices of captures by insect dealers (and he thinks 

 me one) , so I looked forward to having fewer of these pseudo-advertisements 

 for the future in our magazines (inserted free.) What then has been my sur- 

 prize to see time after time notes inserted which appear to have no other 

 object than to show to customers where they can be supplied with certain 

 insects, not when and where and by what process amateur entomologists can 

 take them. Perhaps the longest advertisement of the year of this kind appears 

 in the " Green " magazine. The result of my observation of these articles in 

 our magazines is that I think it strange my notice to open my collections to 

 students, so as to advance science, should have to pay as an advertisement, 

 whilst notices which seem to me only intended to advance individual profit 

 should be admitted to our magazines duty free, and I said — O Editors, how 

 inscrutiable are your ways, how sharp you are ; you are veritable razors of 

 science ! — C. S. Gregson, Liverpool. 



Notes on Lepidoptera, taken by E. R. Curzon, Esq , at the Island of 

 Hoy, during the Summer of 1885, continued from page 272, part lxxii. of 

 the Y.N., by C. S. Gregson. December 17-19. — C.brumata emerged from 

 pupa, small, dark. Only three males and one female were bred. As Mr. Cur- 

 zon took every larva he could find, it would appear this species so abundant 

 here is scarce at Hoy. — C. S. Gregson, Liverpool. 



ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. 



January 20th. 53rd Anniversary meeting. Robert McLachlan, F.R.S., 

 President, in the chair. An abstract of the Treasurer's accounts was 

 read by Mr. Stainton, one of the Auditors ; and the Secretary read the re- 

 port of the Council. The following gentlemen were then elected as the 

 Council for 1886: — President: Robert McLachlan, F.R.S. ; Treasurer: 

 Edward Saunders, F.L.S. ; Secretaries : Herbert Goss, F.L.S., and William 

 Ward Eowler, M.A., F.L.S. ; Librarian: Ferdinand Grut, F.L.S. ; Other 

 Members of Council : T. R. Billups, Edward A. Fitch, F.L.S., P. Du Caul 

 Godman, M.A., F.B.S., W. F. Kirby; E. B. Poulton, M.A., F.G.S. ; H. 

 T. Stainton, F.R.S. ; Samuel Stevens, F.L.S., and J. Jenner Weir, F.L.S., 

 F.Z.S. The President then delivered an address, and a vote of thanks to him 

 was moved by Mr. Stainton, and seconded by Mr. Pascoe, and the Presi- 

 dent then replied. A vote of thanks to the officers was then moved by Mr. 

 Dunning, and seconded by Mr. Distant, and Messrs. Saunders, Fitch, Kirby, 

 and Grut replied. This was the first annual meeting since the Incorporation 

 of the Society by Royal Charter, — H. Goss. 



