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PROCEEDINGS OF THE 



Also a long series of Depressaria depressella, one of tbe smaller moths, 

 a rare and local insect in this country, altliougb an abundant species 

 on tbe Continent, wbere at times it almost destroys the next year's 

 joromise of tbe carrot and parsuep crop by its ravages among tbe 

 flower and seed-beads ; here it chiefly affects plants growing in the 

 wild state. 



By Mr. Turner — a collection of birds' eggs, amongst others two 

 very minute ones found in a small domed nest on tbe branch of a tree 

 in the neighbourhood of Redbill : they were recognised as eggs of 

 the Goldencrested Eegulus, but only one-half the usual size. Also 

 an egg found, with two others, in a nest on the ground in a damp 

 situation : it was rather larger than a Blackbird's egg ; its colour pale 

 blue without any markings. Information was desired as to what 

 bird it could have belonged. =:• 



l^th December, 1873. — An open meeting, to which friends were 

 invited. 



Dr. Bossey, after reading a paper on the " Fall of the Leaf," 

 exhibited under tbe microscope some sections of leaf-stalks and 

 branches, showing tbe various changes of structure which take place 

 when tbe leaves are about to fall, the most noticeable being a longi- 

 tudinal section of elder, which clearly proved the continuation of the 

 outer layer of the bark of the branch through the base of the leaf- 

 stalk, which ultimately causes the separation of the leaf and at the 

 same time tends to heal up the scar on the branch. 



Several London friends, as well as members of the Club, also 

 brought microscopes, and a pleasant evening was spent; at its close 

 a vote of thanks was awarded, on a motion of tbe Chairman, to those 

 who had so kindly assisted. 



9lh January, 1874. — Professor Taipert Jones, F.R.S., F.G.S., Sec, 

 delivered a lecture, illustrated by specimens and diagrams, entitled 



* This was afterwards identified, by !Mr. Dresser, Mr. H. Saunders, and 

 other eminent oologists, as the egg of the common Starling, bitt no suggestion 

 offered as to so unnsiial a place of uidification. 



