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ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION REPORT, 1891-2. 



/^NLY one excursion was taken by the Section during 

 ^^ the excessively wet season of 1891, in June to 

 Dursley, and was very successful from an entomological 

 point of view, a large number of species being captured, 

 among which might be named K. Liicina, si. TrifoVii, I). 

 TJnguicida in great abundance, B. Pandalis, etc. 



The usual indoor Meetings of the Section have been held, 

 and a large number of important and interesting species, 

 both British and foreign, have been exhibited; but no papers 

 requiring record have been read. 



GEO. HARDING, Hon. Sec. 



GEOLOGICAL SECTION. 



AN excursion was made to Pyle Hill. The members 

 met at the Bristol IMuseum, where Mr. Edward 

 Wilson, F.G.S., exhibited diagrams and fossils, and explained 

 the nature and sequence of the Rhoetic or Penarth beds at 

 the Pyle Hill cutting. The party then proceeded to the 

 cutting, and examined the beds in situ. 



A second excursion Avas made to Shepton Mallet, when the 

 Lias quarry near the G.W.R. station was examined, and 

 subsequently the so-called " bastard freestone " resting 

 immediately on the Mountain Limestone. Here Pecten 

 ^ullns and other Lower Lias fossils were found. 



Two Meetings were held. At the first the President of 

 the Section exhibited and made exjDlanatory remarks upon 

 the different forms of Silica as they occur in the rocks. At 

 the second Mr. Gardener exhibited and described the fish 

 scales found by him near Portishead, of which some account 

 has been given on a previous 2:>age. 



CHARLES JECKS, 



Acting Hon. Sec. 



