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the trouble to go over the ground beforehand, and thus knew 

 better some of the objects that were to be met with and the 

 best route to take. Botany is the branch that has on the 

 whole received most attention at the outdoor meetings ; less 

 seems to have been done in Entomology than usual. A 

 separate report of the excursions will be read at one of the 

 meetings of the Club, so that it is not necessary to give so 

 many details respecting them in the Annual Report as usual. 



Donations, &c. — 'A Eeview of the Ferns of Northern India,' 

 in three parts, by Charles Baron Clarke, M.A., F.L.S., pre- 

 sented by Mr. N. E. Brown, of Kew. The head of a Caribou 

 from New Brunswick, presented by Mr. Thomas Hughes, of 

 Wallfield, Reigate. A collection of plants, nine books pub- 

 lished by the Ray Society ; and a series of forty-nme plates 

 illustrating Cuvier's 'Regne Animal,' presented by Dr. Power. 



Exhibitions, Records, &c. — The following Lepidoptera 

 were exhibited by Mr. Edwin Ashby, taken by him in our 

 district : — Adij^pe, Selene, and Lonicerce, from St. Leonard's 

 Forest ; ^gon, from Tilgate Forest ; AlbiciUata, reared from 

 eggs laid by a female taken at Redhill ; Prunaria and Adven- 

 aria, from Fir-woods on the Leith Hill range, the latter on 

 its food-plant, the Whortleberry ; Hectus, from the west end 

 of the Park Hill, Reigate. 



Botany. — Oaleojms versicolor was exhibited by Mr. Cooper; 

 the specimen was found at Redstone Hill ; this species has 

 only once before been recorded in this district. Camelina 

 sativa, exhibited by Mrs. T. L. Aspland, gathered by her in a 

 road below Reigate Hill ; this species is new to our imme- 

 diate district, though several localities in other parts of the 

 county are named in the ' Flora of Surrey.' The following 

 species new to the district have been recorded by Mr. W. H. 

 Summers, of Dorking, who has also furnished the Club with 

 a long list of new localities for species already recorded, the 

 result of some years' careful observation and work : — Medicago 

 macidata and Trifolium scabntm, found near Cotmandene, 

 Dorking ; Claytonia petfoliata, in a lane at Bury Hill ; Sedum 

 reflexum, var. albescens, in a lane near Milton Heath, and at 

 Bury Hill ; Rhinavthiis major, a single specimen found by the 



