Our present issue

CHESTER

GOODWIN

HON.

DOUGHTY,

TREASURER

1870—-1939.

1935-7.

TRANSACTIONS. OUR

PRESENT

ISSUE.

in general will approve of the Executive's decision that the lunacy policy of certain Continentals justifies such Societies as our own in modifying procedure. On 20 September last Notice was distributed that " the Council, consequent upon exigencies of State, suspends Rules viii and ix ; and finds that a curtailed Transactions shall be issued during next winter. Notice of the resumption of the Society's activities will be distributed to each Member in due course." Hence the present Transactions, though issued at our usual period in December, is thin between the Covers ; and we trust that those numerous Contributors, whose Articles have had to be temporarily shelved or Observations unavoidably cut (though all records are preserved), will bear with us and attribute depletion to its true cause. T h e Society is very sound : no internal reason exists to prevent our forging ahead in due course. Meanwhile, such of us as are not otherwise engaged continue scientific pursuits: " T h e dogs bark but the caravan goes on." And there are points of contact : A green caterpillar of under an inch in length crawled through a minute hole leading wires into the remote control switch box of a Swinton in Lancs. air-raid syren on 13 September last. It passed across the terminals, causing the syren to wail.

Folk in Swinton, and the adjoining towns, took shelter. But in less than a half-minute the syren ceased, for the caterpiller had been obliterated and was dead. Truly are Insects ubiquitous.

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