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NATURE NOTES 
Saturday , March 24. — Visit to the Horniman Museum, Forest Hill. Meet at 
the Museum at 3 p.m. Trains leave London Bridge 2. 15 and 2.28 p.m., 
\ ictoria 1.52 and 2.12 p.m. (L.B. & S.C.Ry.). Guide, Dr. Harrison. 
N.B. — There will be a lecture in the Museum on “ Dolls of the World.” 
Saturday, April 7. — Visit either to the Gardens of Sion House, or to the 
Royal Gardens, Kew, under the guidance of Professor Boulger. Particulars will 
appear in the April number of the Magazine. 
All communications -with regard to the Winter Meetings of the Society should 
be addressed to Mr. H. H. Poole. Honorary Secretary of the Excursions Com- 
mittee , at 16, Heathcote Street, W.C. 
Council and Committee Meetings. 
Monday, March 19. — Publications Committee, at 5.30 p.m. 
Tuesday, March 27. — Council Meeting, at 5.30 p.m. 
Annual Conversazlone. 
It is hoped that the Annual Conversazione will be held towards the end of 
May. Tickets will be sent to all members on the Central Body, but those attached 
to Branches must apply to their Local Honorary Secretary as soon as the exact 
date is announced. 
Offers of exhibits and help in the arrangement of them would be welcomed by 
the Conversazione Committee, and should be addressed to the Hon ■ Secretary, at 
20, Hanover Square, W. 
ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. 
M J. Teesdale. — The orchid from Jamaica is Epidendrum polybulbon , 
Swartz. 
S. J. T. — The information you require is very scattered ; but you will find 
references to various works in the bibliography in vol. iv. of Mr. W. F. Kirby’s 
“ Lepidoptera” in Allen’s Naturalist’s Library. The same author’s “Elementary 
Text-book of Entomology” (Sonnenschein), though general, may prove useful to 
you. Sehatz and Staudinger’s “Exotische Schmetterlinge,” the former dealing 
with genera and having 36 uncoloured plates, and the latter coloured and treating 
of species, are perhaps the fullest works for the butterflies. They can be 
obtained for less than^io. Distant’s “ Rhopalocera Malayana ” (1882 6), with 
44 coloured plates, ^5, is now scarce ; Horsfield’s “ Butterflies of Java” (1828-9', 
in two 4to parts, was never completed ; and Swinhoe’s “ Eastern Lepidoptera ’’ 
might be useful. Sir G. Hampson’s British Museum Catalogues deal with the 
families of Lepidoptera seriatim, each volume of text being about 15s., and that 
of plates ^1 ; and Mr. Kirby’s “ Catalogue of Sphingidae and Bombyces” (^2 2s.) 
is only a list of names with synonymy and geographical distribution, but would be 
essential to thorough work at the moths. 
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and address, not necessarily for publication. 
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is accompanied by a stamped and addressed envelope. We cannot undertake to 
name specimens privately, to return them, or to reply to questions by letter. 
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naming, &c., should be addressed to the Editor, Professor Boulger, F.L.S., 
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Honorary General Secretary of the Society, Wilfred Mark Webb, F.L.S.,a$ 
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