PROCEEDINGS OF THE 



The following gentlemen were then elected to serve as officers 

 for the coming year: President, Mr. Sydney Webb; Treasurer, 

 Mr. R. C. Baxter; Secretary, Mr. J. B. Crosfield; Curator, Mr. J. 

 Linnell, jr. ; Members of the Committee, Dr. Bossey. Dr. Holman, 

 Mr. Chambers, Mr. Tyndall, Mr. T. Cooper, Mr. Cox, Mr. Marshall, 

 and Mr. A. J. Crosfield, one place being left unfilled. 



The meeting was then resolved into an ordinary Evening 

 Meeting. 



Mr. Tyndall presented a summary of the Meteorology of the 

 year 1877, as observed by himself at Oxford Road, Redhill. and 

 also a statement of meteorological facts of interest for the months 

 of June, July, August, and September, 1878. 



Mini- 

 muiu. 



27 



22 



23 



32-5 



27-5 



42 



45-5 



40 



35 



26 



29 



25 



Bain 

 Total. 



Greatest 



fall in 

 one day. 



39-07 



No of 

 days on 

 wliich 



rain 



fell. 

 27 



20 

 20 

 20 

 16 

 7 

 13 

 16 

 11 

 13 

 24 

 16 



203 



Mr. Linnell presented to the Club a copy of Benthara's " Illus- 

 trated Hand-book of British Flora " in two volumes. 



The President brought for exhibition and record the following 

 Lepidoptera taken in our district, to which all of them are new ; 

 Eremobia ochroleuca, Cheimatobia boreata, Coleophora argentula 

 (larva previously exhibited), Eupithesia debiliata (bred from larva 

 taken at Leith Hill), Gelechia distinctella, G celerella, G. instabi- 

 lella, G. nlgritella, Phyllocuistis salignella, Phycis Betulae, 

 Bucculatrix Demaryella, Pterophora teucrii. 



