THE ANNUAL CONVERSAZIONE. 
NCE again, by kind permission of His Majesty’s Office 
of Works and of the Civil Service Commissioners, 
the Annual Conversazione was held at the offices of 
the latter in Burlington Gardens. It took place on 
May 25, and is generally considered to have been the most 
successful meeting of the kind that the Society has ever held. 
There was, in any case, a record attendance, for the company 
numbered between 650 and* 700. Among those present were Lord 
Avebury, the Hon. Mrs. Evelyn Cecil, The Hon. Sir John Cock- 
burn, K.C.M.G., Lady Cockburn, Miss Akaster, Mr. and Mrs. 
Anstruther, the Misses Astbury, Mr. and Mrs. F. Watson Baker, 
Mr. E. J. Bedford (Honorary Secretary of the Eastbourne Natural 
History Society), Miss Bentley, Mr. E. Bidwell, Miss Bidwell, 
Mr. Cosmo Blore, Professor Boulger, F.L.S., F.G.S. (Editor 
of Nature Notes), Mr. R. H. Burne, B.A. (Honorary Secretary 
of the Malacological Society), Dr. Dudley Buxton (Chair- 
man of Council), Mrs. Dudley Buxton, Mr. Miller Christy, F.L.S. 
(President of the Essex Field Club), Mrs. Climenson, Mr. Alfred 
Heneage Cocks, M.A., F.S.A., F.Z.S., Mr. G. H. Cottam, 
Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Cooke, Mr. Shaw Crompton, R.I.,Mrs. Shaw 
Crompton, Miss Ethel Crompton, Mr. J. F. Davie, Mr. Walter 
Davies, Mr. Charles L. Druery, F.L.S., Mr. and Mrs. Wilfred 
Durrant, Mr. Fred Enock, F.L.S., F.E.S., Mr. F. G. Fenton, 
Mr. G. H. Goode, Mr. H. Norman Gray, Miss Grace M. Grint, 
Mr. Wintour F. Gwinnell, F.G.S., Mrs. W. Gwinnell, Mr. C. M. 
Hall, Mr. C. M. Hailes, Mr. John Hopkinson, F.L.S. (Honorary 
Secretary of the Ray Society), Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Horder, 
the Rev. Canon Horsley, M.A., the Rev. H. N. Hutchinson, 
B.A., F.G.S., Mrs. H. N. Hutchinson, Mrs. G. S. Jealous, 
Mr. and Mrs. A. S. Kennard, Mr. and Mrs. A. Kingsmill, Mrs. 
and Miss Van Langt, Miss Latham, Mrs. E. Comyns Lewer, 
Mr. W. J. Lucas, B.A., F.E.S., Mr. and Mrs. Budgett 
Meakin, Airs. McKay, Air., Mrs. aud the Alisses Aluhlberg, 
Air. H. Alunt, F.Z.S., Airs. Percy Alyles, Air. E. A. Nash, 
Air. Alilton Offbrd, Air. H. Plowman, F.S.A., Airs. Plowman, 
Air. Hubert H. Poole (Honorary Librarian), Air. and Aliss 
Van Praagh, Air. W. P. Pycraft, A.L.S., F.Z.S. , Aliss Alice 
Ravenhill, Air. and Mrs. H. W. Ravenshaw, Aliss Rich, 
AI.A., Mr. F. W. Rudler, I.S.O., F.G.S. , Air. F. McNeil 
Rushforth (Honorary Secretary of the Ealing Scientific 
Society), Air. G. F. Saunders, F.L.S., Air. Herbert Saunders, 
Dr. Dukinfield Scott, F.R.S. (Secretary of the Linnean Society), 
Airs. Dukinfield Scott, F.L.S., Air. J. J. Shakespeare, Air. and 
Airs. C. D. Soar, Air. G. B. Sowerby, F.L.S., the Rev. T. R. R. 
Stebbing, AI.A., F.R.S. (Secretary of the Linnean Society), Airs. 
Stebbing, Aliss Grace Stebbing, Aliss A. Urlin, Air. Harry J. 
Veitch, F.L.S., Airs. Veitch, Air. and Airs. James Walker, Air. 
