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roadside further on Hypericum Androsamum was found, and 

 along a hedge in the field adjoining Three Bridges Station 

 Serratula tinctoria was in flower in abundance. We were 

 favoured with splendid weather and bright sunshine, scarcely 

 iuteri'upted by a cloud throughout the day. 



Annual Meeting. — October 12th, 1883. 

 The following Annual Eeport was presented and read : — 



HOLMESDALE NaTUEAL HiSTOEY ClUB. 



Annual Report, October 12th, 1883. 



During the past year ten new members and three sub- 

 scribers have been elected into the Club ; five have left the 

 Club by resignation, and two by death ; the present member- 

 ship is eighty-two. 



The Evening Meetings have been held monthly during the 

 winter, and the following subjects have been introduced, in 

 most cases in the form of papers, several of which were illus- 

 trated by specimens and diagrams : — 



Oct. 20, 1882. ' Plants of the Natural Order Lequminifera,' 



by Mr. A. J. Crosfield. 

 Nov. 10. 'Presidential Address'; subject, " Physical Geo- 

 graphy," by Mr. W. H. Tyndall. 

 Nov. 10. ' Character, as one of the Causes of the Rarity 



or Abundance of Different Species of Birds,' by Mr. 



H. M. Wallis (Reading). 

 Dec. 8. ' Bird-Life of the Bass Rock and the Fame 



Islands,' by Mr. E. Bidwell (London). 

 Jan. 12, 1883. ' The Saproleyna Ferox,' by Mr. H. Boyle, 



M.A. (Clapham). 

 Feb. 2. ' The Migrations of Birds,' by Mr. J. E. Littleboy 



(Watford). 

 Mar. 9. ' Geology Made Easy,' by Rev. H. Brass, M.A., 



F.G.S. 

 April 13. ' Meteorological Notes for 1882,' by Mr. W. H. 



Tyndall. 



