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on entomological work and hundreds of careful and painstaking 
students of the subject and the growth of entomology now is 
something phenomenal and the future promises great things. 
M. E. Olivier (Moulins) fait remarquer que le naturaliste 
Bosc, de Paris, est un des premiers naturalistes européens qui aient 
parcouru les États-Unis au point de vue entomologique. Il a rap¬ 
porté de nombreuses séries d’insectes de tous les ordres et il possé¬ 
dait une collection assez importante qu’il avait mise à la disposi¬ 
tion de son ami G.-A. Olivier, qui a décrit un grand nombre de 
ces espèces dans son « Entomologie ». 
M. Henry H. Lyman (Montréal, Canada), le représentant de 
« Entomological Society of Ontario », lit un travail portant comme 
titre : 
Variation in the use of certain scientific terms and changes 
in the spelling of scientific names. 
{Résumé.) 
He referred to the different terms applied to types such as t) r pe, 
co-type, para-type, and the various senses in which some of these 
were used by different authors, and urged that such terms, as it was 
desirable to use, should be accurately defined by some authoritative 
body of naturalists and then that individual naturalists should 
accept the decision. 
He also called attention to such changes in names as Walkeri 
to valkeri , Williamsi to villiamsi and Blakei to blacei and urged 
that the stability of nomenclature was of more importance than 
adherence to an appearance of strict Latinity. (Vol. II, Mémoires, 
P- 423-) 
M. F. M. Howlett (Pusa) parle ensuite : 
A note on methods of preserving Insects in tropical climates. 
( Résumé .) 
Ideal store-house under tropical conditions. Need of resistant 
store-boxes. Condensation of moisture. Necessity of non-corrosive 
pins. Paraffin-wax method of lining boxes; supports for Mosquitos 
in place of paper discs. New method of rough mounting for Mos¬ 
quitos. (Vol. II, Mémoires, p. 357.) 
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