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FIELD MEETINGS. 



August 18, 1866. — On this occasion the members proceeded by 

 train to the Gomshall Railway Station, and walked thence to 

 Abinger, through beautifully shady lanes and open fields, along the 

 margins of running streams, and through some portions of the finely 

 wooded districts in that neighbourhood, collecting on their way 

 numerous specimens of plants, among which were several rare and 

 local species, but none entirely new to that district. The Entomolo- 

 gists were busy as usual, and vai-ious specimens, chiefly of Lepidoptera 

 and Coleoptera, were captured by them. They walked back to tha 

 Gomshall Station and returned by train, after having enjoyed a very 

 delightful day. 



September 2Si, 1866. — Notices had been issued to the members of 

 an e.xcui-sion to be made on this day to Marden Park and the 

 Godstone Stone Quarries, but it being a very wet day no excui'sion 

 took place. 



May 25, 1867. — The members made an excursion to Gatton and 

 Chipstead. The efi'ects of the late frost were very marked in every 

 direction, particularly on the young shoots of the common Nettle, 

 Brake, Fern, and Ash : these in many places were completely destroyed, 

 having a drooping appearance, and looking as if singed and blackened 

 by fire. The young shoots of several other plants were more or less 

 cut by the frost, particularly in exposed situations open to the north. 

 Vegetation of low growth seems to have suffered but little from the 

 cold when sheltered from the wind. In a wood between Gatton and 

 Chipstead the Fly Ophrys {Ophrys muscifera) was found well in flower, 

 and several other interesting plants were observed in flower or in a 

 very forward state for bloom. The Entomologists found numerous 

 larvae, and some interesting Hymenoptera and Diptera were taken. A 

 neatly contrived nest, supposed to be of a spider, in the aperture of a 



