This notice would be incom])lete without reference to the instruc- 

 tive Lecture on Cryptogamic Botany, in January, by Mr. F. T. Mott, of 

 Leicester, which, though given before a General Meeting, seems to 

 belong to the records of the Botanical Section. 



FRED. W. ANDREWS, 



Hon. Sec. of Section. 



REPORT OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION 



This Section consists of about the same number of members as last 

 season. Six meetings have been held, the attendance averaging about 

 four. Only one Paper has been read, that by the Rev. C. F. Thome- 

 will, on the species of the genus Dianthoecia found in this District. The 

 other meetings have been devoted to comparison and discussion of notes 

 and exhibition of specimens. 



The list of Macro Lepidoptera of the district is now in the hands 

 of the members of the Section, reprinted from the "Entomologist." The 

 list of Micro Lepidoptera is not quite complete: it will be published as 

 soon as possible. The members of the Section have done some good 

 work during the Summer. Some insects, new to the district, have been 

 discovered — several by Mr. Thomas Gibbs, on Cannock Chase — a list 

 of which appeared in the "Midland Naturalist." Lophopteryx cucuUina 

 has been taken by Mr. R. Freer, at Rugeley. 



Eucosinia certata taken by the Rev. C. F. Thornewill, at Burton; 

 also Carsia paludata at Chartley Moss, and Calocampa Solidaginis at 

 Cannock Chase, by Mr. J. R. B. Masefield, of Cheadle. There 

 have been an unusual number of Acherontia Atropos taken last Autumn 

 in this district, also three specimens of Sphinx convolvuli. 



JNO. E. NOWERS, 



Hon. Sec. 



REPORT OF THE GEOLOGICAL SECTION. 



The local work of this Section for the past year has been entirely 

 done by the President of the Section — Mr. H. T. Brown, whose 

 enc^uiries, into the Geology of the district, have shown a point not 

 hitherto recorded in the Geological Map of the neighbourhood. 



.At the first meeting of the Section, Mr. Brown read a Paper in 

 which he described the method employed in making a geological survey. 



