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200 COLOURS AND COLORATION IN ANIMALS. SePT., 1892. 
Mr. Goode, on behalf of the Birmingham Natural History 
and Microscopical Society, gave an invitation to the mem¬ 
bers of the Union to visit Birmingham next year, and the 
invitation was accepted. 
A recommendation of the Committee was adopted that in 
future the Executive Committee should also consist of such 
of the secretaries of the Societies in the Union as were 
willing to act upon it, and Birmingham was appointed as the 
place of meeting for the Committee. 
Mr. W. Wickham King proposed a vote of thanks to the 
Oswestry and Welshpool Naturalists’ Field Club, which 
Mr. J. F. Goode seconded, and the motion was adopted. 
—The Bev. 0. M. Feilden said they were delighted to have 
the Union present.—Mr. Chase moved a vote of thanks to 
the Hon. Secretaries for the efficient manner in which they 
had worked up the meeting. The motion was seconded, and 
adopted unanimously, and Mr. Wickham King in responding, 
said he hoped to receive the support of the members in 
making the meeting at Birmingham a large success. 
Of the Conversazione in the evening, the various addreses 
delivered thereat, and the excursions on the following day, 
full reports will be given in our next number. 
THE ORIGIN AND OBJECTS OF COLOURS AND 
COLORATION IN ANIMALS.* 
BY A. BERNARD BADGER, B.A. 
C Concluded from vaye 177.) 
We now turn to the subject of sematic colouring; the 
most important instances are those of gaudy coloration, which 
are generally believed to indicate that the animal bearing 
the bright colours is unpalatable. Not all gaudily coloured 
animals, however, are unpalatable, for, as Mr. Beddard points 
out, experiments by Mr. Poulton show a very complete series 
of transitions between conspicuously coloured caterpillars 
that are disregarded by all foes and conspicuously coloured 
caterpillars that are always eaten with avidity. His own 
experiments also show that warning coloration by no means 
always exempts insects from attack, and that dislike is purely 
relative among insect-eating animals. 
* Animal Coloration : An Account of the Principal Facts and 
Theories Relating to the Colours and Markings of Animals. By Frank 
E. Beddard, M.A., F.R.S.E. London: Swan, Sonnenschein, and Co. 
Price 10s. fid. 
