April 2jni, ICJOO.] PROCEEDINGS. XXV 



\Microscopical and Natural History Section.^ 

 Annual Meeting, April 23rd, 1900. 



Charles Bailey, F.L.S., President of the Section, in the Chair. 



Mr. Peter Cameron exhibited a specimen of the larvje of 

 the oil beetle {Meioe), which are found on the flowers of the 

 Coltsfoot, &c. These larvae are parasitic on bees, and are thus 

 conveyed into the nests. 



Also an Indian Wasp, with a female Stylops or probably a 

 Xetios sticking out of the abdomen. 



Mr. Thomas Rogers exhibited a number of Australian 

 Mosses collected by Mr. Whitelegge, including five new species 

 named by Karl Miiller : — {\) Dawsonia polytrichoides ; Hurst- 

 ville, Sidney. {2) Fiiotrichumwiiite/eggiaruin; Bull's Head Bay, 

 Sidney. (3) Bouchia zvhiteleggii ; Cape Mull, Sidney. (4) 

 CajHpylopiis whiteieggii ; Lum Cove River. (5) IVeissia ivhitc- 

 leggeana ; Sugar Loaf Bay. 



The following Officers and Council were elected for the next 

 session, 1 900-1 901 : — 



President : Charles Bailey, F.L.S. 



Vice-Freside?tts : John Boyd, James Cosmo Melvill, M.A., 

 F.L.S., Mark Stirrup, F.G.S. 



Treasurer : Mark L. Sykes, F.R.M.S. 



Secretary : Theodore Sington. 



Council: James F. Allen, G. H. Broadbent, M.R.C.S., 

 Robert E. Cunliffe, W. E. Hoyle, M.A., M.Sc., M.R.CS , 

 Henry Hyde, Thomas Rogers, Charles H. Schill, John 

 Watson. 



Annual Report of the Session ending 23RD April, 1900. 



The Session just over has been quite equal to any of the 

 preceding ones in the number and interest of the papers, com- 

 munications, and exhibits brought to the meetings. One 



