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Members of the Section." Since this, Messrs. J. Mason, R. 

 M. Prideaux, and C. J. Watkins, have been asked, and have 

 consented, to join the section under this rule. 



On March 16th the meeting was held at Caledonia Place, 

 by invitation of Mr. Griffiths, who exhibited a large number 

 of Lepidoptera, of which a few specimens of the Queensland 

 skipper Euschemon Baflesiw were perhaps the most interest- 

 ing. There has been some doubt and discussion as to 

 whether this species is a moth or a butterfly, the insect 

 having the frenulum of the moth, but the antennee with 

 other characters of a Hesperid butterfly. Mr. Griffiths 

 showed by some pupae and preserved larvae that it undoubtedly 

 belonged to the butterflies. 



The meetings held on November 10th and April 13th 

 were held at Rupert House, by the kind invitation of Mr. 

 S. Barton, when large numbers of fine and rare specimens 

 of Coleoptera and Lepidoptera were inspected. 



CHARLES BARTLETT, 



Hon. Sec. 



GEOLOGICAL SECTION. 



THE numbers of the sectional members remains practi- 

 cally constant. Mr. A. E. Hudd and Mr. F. Ashmead, 

 valued members of long standing, have resigned, but some 

 new members are about to join. Two meetings were held in 

 1896, the first on March 26th, when Mr. S. H. Reynolds 

 read a paper on " Petrology," illustrated by lantern slides. 

 On December 16th Mr. E. Wilson, F.G.S., read a paper on 

 " The Beds capping Dundry Hill mapped as Inferior Oolite 

 by the Geological Survey." This paper will appear in 

 print in the Proceedings in due course. An excursion to 

 Westbury to visit the Ironstone beds was taken on Saturday, 

 the 18th of July. 



