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behind for some hours. We had to anchor in the Bitter Lakes for one hour so that the south-bound convoy could pass. In Port Said we had 18 tons of cargo to discharge. During that time we took more fresh water. Sailed for London at 0300 hours, 4th July. Personally I found the piloting as good as, if not better than it was before the trouble. There are 200 Canal pilots now, plus another 40 in Port Said.

LOG OF THE VOYAGE :

Arrive Depart

Birkenhead Dakar ... Durban ... ... Lourenco Marques Beira ... ... Calcutta Kakinada Madras ... 22nd March 30th March 30th March 11th April 22nd April 23rd April 28th April 28th April 4th May 21st May 29th May 2nd June 4th June 5th June 12th June

Pondicherri 12th June 13th June

Colombo ... 15th June 21st June

Aden ...

27th June 28th June P. Said ... 3rd July 4th July Tilbury ... ... ... ... 12th July 18th July and on to Avonmouth, Belfast, Liverpool and Greenock.

THE NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY

Secretary: B. G. WAY. Treasurer. R. E. CROWE.

HOUSE REPRESENTATIVES:

The Manor: T. M. JENKINSON. The Grove: S. C. GIBSON. Queen's: D. N. L. BERESFORD.

The Rise: E. D. W. FULBROOK.

Unlike previous years there was little business to be settled at the first meeting of the term, as a Committee Meeting had been held earlier. The only business left pending from this was the election of a Secretary and Treasurer. The remainder of this meeting was devoted to the annual quiz, in which Mr. Crews put before the Society 36 objects to be identified. The result was very close and after a re-count the book prize was awarded to J. M. Smith with E. D. Fulbrook second.

The next two meetings were devoted to talks on entomology : the first was an introduction by Mr. Crews to the second, which was given by Mr. Richards, the Local Entomological Recorder for York. Mr. Crews' talk took the form of an introduction to the subject of entomology, followed by a short outing to the surrounding ground to look for the egg stage of various insects.

The lecture given by Mr. Richards was concerned with the techniques used in entomological studies. He showed the Society 44