84 Proceetluifjs. 



Annual Meeting. — October 21st, 1892. 



The Annual Keport and Balance Sheet were read and 

 •adopted : — 



HOLMESDALE NaTURAL HiSTORY ClUB. 



Annual Report, October, 1892. 



A new departure in the history of the Club during the past 

 year has been the holding of three of the Evening Meetings 

 at Kedhill. The average attendance at these three meetings 

 was twenty-one, being almost exactly the same as the average 

 attendance at the three ordinary meetings held at Reigate. 

 At the meeting in February, to which young people were 

 specially invited, about sixty were present. On that occasion 

 Mr. Frederick Enock gave a most admirable lecture on the 

 life-history of the Hessian Fly. 



Papers have been read, or addresses given, on the under- 

 mentioned subjects : — 



Oct. 16th, 1891. ' Curious Flowers and their Fertilization,' 



by Mr. N. E. Brown, of Kew. 

 November 20th. ' Three Weeks' Holiday in North Wales 

 in pursuit of Natural History,' by Mr. E. S. Salmon. 

 A Eeport on ' The Summer Excursions of the Club,' 

 by Mr. B. B. Gough. 

 December 18th. ' British Spiders,' by Mr. W. H. Tyndall. 

 ' The Nesting of the Norfolk Plover,' by Mr. C. E. 

 Salmon. 

 January 15th, 1892. 'Meteorological Notes for 1891,' by 

 Mr. W. H. Tyndall. ' The Coal formation in the 

 South-east of England,' by Mr. W. Gilford. 

 February 20th. ' The Hessian Fly,' by Mr. Enock. 

 March 18th. ' A Botanical run through the Fens,' by Mr. 



Arthur Bennett, F.L.S. 

 April 8th. ' A Bird Demonstration,' by Mr. A. Dowsett. 



During the year several exhibits were made of various 

 objects of interest by Mr. Cooper, Mr. B. B, Gough, find Mr. 



