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Mr. E. S. Edwards proposed a hearty vote of thanks 
for the kindness of the President and the Director in show- 
ing the members around, which was carried with much 
enthusiasm. —H.C. 
EASTER EXCURSION. 
APRIL, 1914. 
About 20 members spent an enjoyable holiday at 
Austinmer. In spite of the usual seaside attractions, seve- 
ral excursions were held to the sea coast or the neighbour- 
ing bushes. Several of the more energetic visited the Bulli 
Pass and Loddon Falls. Entomology, Zoology (sea life) 
and Botany all had their followers. The botanists were 
perhaps numerically the strongest, and obtained the best 
results. —W. M. CARNE. 
REVIEWS. 
AvustTRALIAN BurrERFLIES.—The publication of Messrs. 
Waterhouse and Lyell’s book, ‘‘The Butterflies of Aus- 
tralia,’’? marks the beginning of a new epoch in Australian 
entomology, for it brings the entomological work of Aus- 
tralians quite up to the level of the high standard reached 
within the last few years by the older seats of scientific 
learning in Europe and America. Nowhere amongst the 
many beautiful publications on Lepidoptera that have seen 
the light during the past twenty or thirty years do we 
remember having seen any book that reflects greater credit 
upon its authors, printers, and publishers. It has often 
been stated that the conditions of the printing trade in 
Australia make it impossible to produce locally such fine 
work as is done in London or Berlin. The printing and 
the plates, both half-tone and coloured, in the book before 
us, emphatically negative such an assertion. But it: is 
above all in its scientific value, its clearness of conception 
and arrangement, and its evidence on every page of first- 
hand knowledge of the subject and mastery of an enor- 
mous mass of literature (on which any study of any por- 
tion of a fauna must nowadays be based), that the book 
claims the thanks and congratulations of all scientific men 
in Australia for its joit authors. 
The object and scope of the work is avowedly sys- 
tematic. It gives complete and accurate descriptions and 
figures of every one of the 332 species of butterflies so 
far recorded for Australia. With these descriptions and 
figures before him, the veriest tyro in entomological work 
cannot fail to name his captures accurately. In a brief 
