The Natuealist. 



Now a til rill of pleasure, the large footman moth {(JEnistris cpiadra) is 

 flinging on within my net, and now the forest flies or clegs {Hematoma 

 'jduvialis) are all at me, driving me to desperation. My new acquain- 

 tance is telling me, I believe, that the best way to get to Rufus' Stone 

 is to take the 'bus to Lyndhurst ; and now an old tar, with both legs 

 shot away, is beginning to narrate the bombardment of Alexandria. 

 Bombardment of Alexandria^ by Jove ! It is positively four o'clock^ 

 and I must make a hasty retreat for the station. 



What ! exclaims my reader, and without even catching a glimpse 

 of the Cicada? Nay, but then I saw it mentally. Can -I not recaD 

 the second of June, 1871, and the happy moment when I watched the 

 late Mr. Alfred Owen, seated at a deal table, in the little inn at 

 Brockenhurst, engaged in setting a real Cicada anglica, with its drums 

 a-sling, only j.ust the day before beaten from the forest white-thorn. 

 And theuy besides, I knew something of its family history. 



According to Dr. Hagen (Stet. Zeit. 1855 s. 66-91), the little 

 English Cicada^ now but rarely taken in the southern counties, extends 

 throughout all Europe, and it is found as far north as the sixtieth 

 degree of latitude, being captured in the neighbourhood of St. Peters- 

 burg, and occasionally at Kinekulle, in the south of Sweden ; it has 

 likewise been observed in Siberia, in company with what has been 

 taken to be a dark variety (adusta), and a nearly allied species (C. 

 prasina.) Dr. Hagan calls it the Cicada montana, of Scopoli, but it 

 has been blessed with many appellatives. In the New Forest it is 

 thought to breed among the fern clumps, where the pupa case has been 

 noticed, and newly emerged specimens have been captured. In its 

 time of appearance, general biology, and characters of colonization, it 

 reminds the field naturalist strongly of the Cicada Jicematodes of 

 southern Europe^ from which species it has been nevertheless widely 

 separated by descriptive writers. It is emphatically a bloody Cicada. 

 I hope to listen for the sound of its Jew's harp another year. VaU ! 



Guildford, July 29th, 1882. 



DARWIN AND DARWINISM. 

 By the Rev. S. Fletcher Williams, 

 {Cm%dud<id.y 



I WISH now to pass to the review of just what it was that Mr. Darwin 

 did. What was the contribution that he gave to the scientific thought 

 ©.f the world? We talk about " Darwinism " and " Evolution," but 

 I am not far wrong in assuming that^ outside of the students of it, few 



