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was a good place to study insect life, tie believed 
there was no better, and he wished the opportunity 
for the study might be somewhat extended during 
next summer by having the gardens open during 
more hours (applause). The phylloxera was found 
in Australia as well as in France, and in one of the 
colonies it did so much damage that they appointed 
a Frenchman as inspector of vines. One man, how¬ 
ever, told the inspector very plainly that he was a 
humbug, and what was worse he proved it, for the 
man was not able to distinguish the phylloxera 
from a common blight, and so he wa3 not able to 
hold his appointment ten days. Wherever they 
found injurious insects they were almost certain to 
find something to prey upon them, and if a nest of 
black ants could be disturbed in the neighbourhood 
of the white ants referred to by Mr. Whyte, they 
would soon eat them up. The suggestion, originally 
made he believed by Mr. Bevan, but repeated that 
night by Mr. Popley, for the formation of field 
clubs, was a good one, for it would enable them to 
collect the materials for many interesting papers to 
be read during the winter.—Mr. Lorrain also spoke 
in favour of the formation of field clubs.—Mr. 
Lupton spoke of the relation of insect life to 
animals, and the metamorphosis of insects fre¬ 
quently occurring in animals. For instance, there 
was a common disease in sheep, a kind of vertigo, 
caused by a small worm in the brain. The sheep, 
who was a close biting animal, took up the tape 
worm from dogs in biting the gra^s, and then a few 
weeks after they found the bladder worm in the 
sheep. What he bad heard that evening convinced 
him more than ever that all the sciences and all kinds 
of learning were much allied with one another, for 
the lecture made him think that they must under¬ 
stand something of entomology before they could 
understand parasytic life. When they all assembled 
together in an institution of that kind they could 
learn something from each other. — hr. E. A. Cook 
said that Mr. Lupton’s remarks led up to a ques¬ 
tion he wished to ask. They knew that the rapid 
growth of animals, aided by such food as oil cake, 
gave them animals of a lower stamina, and it might 
be remarked that a manure heap swarmed with 
insects. Did not the rapid growth of plants recom¬ 
mended by Miss Ormerod cause them to be more 
loosely knit together, and did not that rapid growth 
encourage the growth of insect life ?—Dr. Johnson 
said he believed that Miss Ormerod was the dis¬ 
coverer of one particular oak gall not previously 
known in this country. The subject of the oak 
