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in many cases almost an impossibility. It appeared more probable that the 

 antennas were used for a combination of the senses, more especially hearing 

 and feeling, in some species hearing being most predominant, and in others 

 touch. Mr. Barton exhibited some iaterestiag species of the genus Paussus as 

 illustrating the former, and mentioned the Cerambycid£e as well illustrating the 

 latter, while different species of weevils were well illustrative of both senses 

 combined, the slightest noise having the same effect as a touch upon them. 



At several meetings of the Section attention was drawn by several members 

 to the extraordinary abundance of Collas edusa, which has swarmed to an 

 extent never before recorded in England, having been by far our commonest 

 butterfly through all the southern and eastern counties, the general scarcity 

 of other species making it the more remarkable. 



GEO. HARDING, Eon. Sec. 



QEOLOGICAL SECTION. 



1877.— February 22. — Annual Meeting. Mr. Stoddart gave an account of 

 the strata passed through in sinking a well in Old Market Street, 

 Bristol, to a depth of 300 feet, — Oflacers re-elected. 



Mar. 22. — Meeting. Mr. Stoddart read a paper on the Foraminifera 

 found in the Clifton Eocks, and illustrated it with microscopic preparations. 



Walks were taken during the summer months. — Easter Monday, April 2, 

 to East Harptree, to examine the Harptree Chert. — May 31, to Weston- 

 super-Mare and Woodspring, where the raised beach and the igneous rocks 

 were examined, and the party were very hospitably entertained by Mr. 

 Whidbome.— June 16, under the Clifton Eocks to Sea Mills.— July 3, to 

 Hoi well, where the Ehsetic fissures in the Carboniferous Limestone were 

 examined, one fissure containing Post-tertiary remains.— September 20, to 

 Portishead, where the Carboniferous Limestone and Old Eed Sandstone were 

 examined. The limestone quarry above the church has an xmusiiaJ appear- 

 ance, the fossils appearing in bends in the centre of certain beds, and in a 

 silicified state sometimes. Some of the members considered it to belong to 

 the New Eed, and that the fossils were re-deposited. All the facts, however, 

 are against this view. Mr. S. Derham found Helodus Icsvissimus, and 

 presented it to the Museum. 



A. C. PASS, Hon. Sec. 



