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leaves or from the insects themselves. It blackens the leaves, 

 and so retards the beneficial influences of light and air ; and 

 the fruit, although not actually injured in quality, is blackened 

 and rendered unsaleable. The tree would, of course, be more 

 or less injured, and its vitality sapped, if the young insects 

 were prevalent all over its leaves. 



THE THIRTY-NINTH ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING. 

 28th October, 1890. 



Mr. A. Somerville, B.Sc, F.L.S., Vice-President, in the Chair. 

 The Secretary (Mr. D. A. Boyd) read the 



Report of the Council. 



Membership.— During the past year the names of 9 Ordinary 

 Members were added to the Roll. The present membership is 

 as follows : 



Honorary, ,- 



Corresponding, .o 



Ordinary : 



Life Members, - '>9 



Annual, qro 



Suspended, ,, 



300 



Total Membership, . "^ 



4 Associates were elected, the number on the Roll now being 19. 

 Meetings and Excursions. -Eight Meetings were held during 

 Winter-Session 1889-90, at which a large mimber of zoological 

 and botanical specimens were exhibited, and various important 

 communications read. Reports of the Meetings were supplied 

 to the local newspapers. 



During the winter the Council had under consideration 

 various suggestions which had been made with the view of 

 rendering the Summer Meetings and Excursions of more 

 interest and value to the members than in recent years, and 

 a Committee was accordingly appointed to make and carry 

 out the necessary arrangements for these Meetings and 

 Excursions. Special thanks are due to the Committee for the 

 very complete and satisfactory provisions made by them for 

 the Excursions, especially in obtaining permission for the 

 Society to visit private estates not usually accessible to the 

 public, and in making arrangements for the stoppage of trains 

 and for the issue of tickets at a reduced rate to members 

 attending the Excursions. 



