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Western Europe, and he had found it in Southern France, 

 Belgium, and quite commonly in Switzerland. 



The President said that the relation of insects to pollination 

 was a very interesting subject. Last summer, while in a small 

 town in Southern France, some five miles from the Spanish 

 frontier, he noticed a creeper, a species of Asclepiad, growing 

 on a railing, and from one of the inconspicuous flowers observed 

 a specimen of the humming-bird hawk moth, Macroglossa stella- 

 tarum, hanging by its proboscis. He had recently seen in a 

 number of the Comptes Rendus a paper on the subject, giving 

 numerous instances where dead insects have been found hanging 

 from various Asclepiads by their probosces. 



Mr. W. Wesche, F.R.M.S., said he did not understand how 

 insects like the wasp, with short probosces, got trapped. Those 

 with long ones like Macroglossa it was easy to understand. 



Mr. A. E. Hilton exhibited ( x 20) sporangia of Didymiurti 

 eff'tisuni, on a dead leaf. A species very variable in form. 



Mr. W. Wesche, F.R.M.S. : Mites in Cryptops hortensis 

 (Garden centipede). 



Mr. J. Burton : Young Nostocs, probably N. caerideum, from 

 Ruislip. 



At the meeting of the Club held on January 25th, 1910, 

 Prof. E. A. Minchin, M.A., F.Z.S., President, in the Chair, the 

 minutes of the meeting held on December 28th, 1909, were read 

 and confirmed. 



Messrs. F. W. Green, J. A. Carter, R,. Canaway, E. Cross, 

 H. Whitehead, A. E. Hammond, S. C. Sheldrick, C. S. Todd and 

 J. S. Crabtree were balloted for and duly elected members of the 

 Club. 



The List of Donations to the Club was read and the thanks of 

 the members were voted to the donors. 



Nominations for ofiicers and members of the Committee for 

 election at the annual general meeting, to be held on Feb- 

 ruary 22nd, were taken. 



An account of the fresh-water organisms taken during the 

 Antarctic expedition under Lieutenant Shackleton was given by 

 Mr. James Murray, one of the scientific staff on board the 

 Nimrod. Four specimens of rotifers were exhibited. These were 

 Philodhia gregaria, Philodina alata, Adineta grandis, sp. n., and 



