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response, as anything sent will of course be named by trained 
entomologists. Specimens should be sent direct by post to 
Secretary, Zoological Society, Regent’s Park, London, N.W. 
* The generosity of Sir James Caird, Bart., has enabled us 
to build a new Insect House, which will be opened this month. 
It has been specially constructed for the purpose, is being 
very carefully fitted up, and will be improved from time to 
time as experience tells us how to obtain the best conditions 
of warmth and moisture required. 
‘ Our intention is two-fold. We hope to interest and 
educate the British public bj^ showing living insects of many 
kinds in all stages of their life-history, and, by paying special 
attention to the economic aspect of entomology, exhibiting 
any injurious insects we are able to get. We also intend the 
House to be used for scientific inquiry by study of the life- 
histories and transformations of different kinds of insects, 
and by the investigation of special problems. 
‘ We shall be much indebted if any workers can assist the 
Society in this important development of its educational and 
scientific work by helping us to obtain any insects which will 
bear transportation to London in some resting stage, such as the 
egg-cases of Mantids, Acridiids, Cossidids, &c., the pupae of 
moths, butterflies and the larger beetles, larvae in wood or soil, 
adult beetles, fireflies, &c., ant pupae, the eggs of stick-insects, 
plant-bugs, aquatic bugs, and the eggs of silkworms or other 
lepidoptera. These, and many others, will suggest themselves 
as forms of insect life which might stand transportation by 
post to London. 
‘ It is desired to inform collectors that the Society requires 
material of this kind and will be prepared to pay reasonably 
for it. It might be borne in mind that our object is not like 
that of a Museum, to obtain rare forms or new species, but 
stages of insect life that will bear transportation alive, and 
that abundant and common forms might suit us very well. 
4 Sd. P. Chalmers Mitchell, 
‘ Secretary, 
‘ Zoological Society, 
‘ London,’ 
‘September 1913. 
