TRANSACTIONS—PERTHSHIRE SOCIETY OF NATURAL SCIENCE. 
and the more-painfully-evident absence of working entomologists, is 
matter for regret; and, whilst we are aware that the Perthshire Society 
of Natural Science is doing much good work, we are afraid our 
entomological records are not of the best. 
Although much has been done for Scottish Entomology by our 
distinguished ex-President, Dr. F. Buchanan White, a glance at our 
collections will show how very far behind we are. Of some orders, 
indeed, we do not possess a single specimen, and this, too, when 
the very large addition to our Museum is nearing completion. Surely 
it is high time we were up and doing! 
Were the privileges and advantages of its study made evident, we 
have no doubt whatever but that the students would be forthcoming. 
The great obstruction has always been the want of appliances for the 
determination of species; and now that we are to have a laboratory 
at our disposal, a step in the right direction would be to have the 
same fully equipped with a complete set of entomological apparatus, 
including a thoroughly-good entomological microscope. 
Few Societies are better supplied with valuable and admirable 
works on Entomology than our own, and it is much to be regretted 
that these lie upon our library shelves almost unopened from year’s 
end to year’s end. Surely these volumes are worthy of a little more 
attention from our younger members, and we would most heartily 
endorse the hope expressed by our esteemed President, in a recent 
presidential address, that these younger members, and those who 
heretofore have taken no active interest in the work of our Society, 
would now decide to come forward and help us. 
Probably our Society may at no distant date be induced to 
arrange for a series of lectures upon structural, economic, and general 
entomology, a movement which might prove an incentive to the study, 
for without an increase in the number of working entomologists, we 
cannot speedily hope for any very complete records of our native 
insect fauna. 
