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THE primary object of any Scientific Society is a concatenation of brains, a galaxy of knowledge, that in common illumines a subject to its utmost limits at any given period of time. Existent political exigencies interdict personal Meetings just now ; so the Editor has selected, from the mass of copy that has accumulated by our enforced reduction of publication, two communal comital papers for this Transactions. Also, to mitigate our dissemination as far as may be, he has spread before him a goodly array of correspondence and trusts some extracts will facilitate Members' intercommunication, though not ' in the flesh ' as the Birdists say.—Recalled to the Army last Sept. and am with the British Expedition in France (H. F. Allen, 28 April); now in Norfolk. Since vou were here in June, repeated attempts have fired forty acres of young Conifers in Wilverlev Inclosure (Henry Andrews, Norlevwood, New Forest, 6 Oct.). I have again taken Sphinx pinastri at Reydon (G. J. Baker, 13 Oct.). Mr. Edward Barrs is deceased : of his achievements (gestes) we are horribly ignorant.—We have enough cash in hand to issue this year's Transactions on the lines of the last (John Bedwell, v.v. Mrs. Bedwell, 8 Oct.). T h e British Natural History Museum got one or more incendiary bombs on 8th that have practically wiped out the Botanical Gallerv, though the fire did not penetrate below that, but the Geological basement even had water Streaming down the walls. I am told there was another bomb last night, behind the same block. And another has just rattled the whole building, probably a delayed-action one, so I had better send back your box of Beetles while the going is good (Dr. Blair, 11 Sept.). Later we had further trouble, for the—