2 PROCEEDINGS OF THE 



Sth November, 1872. — At the Special Meeting preceding the 

 ordinary business, the notice was read inviting the members to 

 consider a proposed alteration of Rule 8 (which relates to the Com- 

 mittee), as regards changing the word "seven" therein to "nine." 

 This alteration having been duly put was passed unanimously ; after 

 which Mr. S. Webb, the retiring Secretary, was elected as the first 

 additional member of the Committee, and Mr. Thomas Cooper as 

 the second. 



The following exhibitions were made at the Ordinary Meeting : — 

 By Mr. Kensitt — a fine specimen of the interesting fungus, Clavaria 

 fasigiata. By Dr. Bossej — a vegetable fibrous substance from New 

 Zealand, which grows on a kind of reed near the beach, called by the 

 natives "Puggaria"; also a curious Erodio-hygroscope, constructed 

 by Dr. Halifax, of Brighton, by fixing the lower end of a seed of 

 Erodium moschatum in the centre of a circular card and fastening a 

 brass index to the awn proceeding from the other end of the seed. 

 By Mr. E. Brown — two moths, one of which {Sij)ito)nis ijhcegea, Linn., 

 supposed new to Britain) was captured near Dover by Mr. Batchelor, 

 and the other [Pachetra leacopliaa), taken by himself some four years 

 ago from a lamp in the Station Road, Redhill. By Mr. S. Webb — 

 varieties of the following British moths : — Melaiiippe montanata, 

 M. hastata, M. subtristata, and Boarmia roboraria, the latter a 

 singular melanic specimen. By the Secretary — a series of Stylopidcc, 

 together with various bees and wasps from which they had been 

 obtained during the spring and summer months ; they included 

 specimens of a new Stylojjs (both sexes) from Athens, and a long 

 series of females of the rare British genus Halictojjhagus, taken at 

 Folkestone, in August last, with its foster-parent. By Mr. Gilbert — 

 a fossil vertebra of the Mosasaurus found at Betchworth in chloritic 

 sand. By the President — some wood coloured green, of a peculiarly 

 bright colour, from the action of the roots of a little fungus, Peziza 

 icruginosa ; also a large and fine Agaric, from meadows, Charlwood, 

 name not determined, which grows very thickly together and forms 

 large rings, discolouring the grass in the way of the well-known fairy- 

 rings ; also a large collection of ferns, all having a trailing character. 



