OurOctober 2025 Newsletter provides details of future events including the next online meeting on Wednesday 26 November at which Professor Daniel Karlin, Vice-President, will deliver the Eileen Stamers-Smith Memorial Lecture: ‘How Mowgli Became a Monkey’ and the next members’ reading evening on Thursday 11 December. There is also a report on a unique copy of Departmental Ditties from our President, David Richards, an article on connections between Kipling and Lewis Carroll, a 1894 Kipling parody from Punch (note: the text contains some derogatory and/or offensive language) – and even a dinosaur!