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Naturalists, it would, I am sure, have been negatived by a 
large majority. 
There is an innovation, not peculiar to the British Museum, 
to which I cannot help referring,— the introduction of 
“ refreshment rooms.” This feature seems to me, to say 
the least, utterly needless. Few persons remain in a museum 
longer than four or five hours at a time, and I am heartily 
sorry for those persons who require food and drink at shorter 
intervals. This matter is intimately linked with one of the 
unsettled questions of the day — the opening of museums, 
galleries of art, public libraries, &c., on Sundays. I am by 
no means certain that such opening is demanded by any 
large portion of the public, or that it would be productive 
of good if carried out. But by connecting museums with 
refreshment rooms the advocates of Sunday opening should 
reflect that they enlist against themselves the sympathies of 
that large, well-organised, and earnest body who now demand 
the total suppression of the liquor traffic on Sundays. 
Furthermore, it may well be asked whether it is wise in 
places devoted to study to supply the means for alcoholic 
excitement and for possible disorder. The refreshment room 
will attract not students, but loungers, and induce them to 
stay longer than they otherwise would, and to appear in their 
least desirable aspect. 
V. THE IMPORTANCE OF INSECT-CAPTURE 
FOR DROSERA ROTUNDIFOLIA. 
By H. M. Busgen. 
t jHE existence of so-called carnivorous plants, fitted 
l with special but varied appliances for capturing flies 
and other small inseCts, is now no longer disputed. 
The more closely the vegetable world is studied from this 
point of view, the more of such fly-catching species are dis- 
covered. A recent instance is the common Petunia, so long 
a favourite in our gardens. Numbers of florists and others 
must have noticed little gnats, &c., sticking fast among the 
minute hairs on its leaves. But till lately this faCt was 
