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Proceedings, 



The Holmesdale Natural History Club. 

 Abstract of Accounts. 



Receipts. 



Oct. 1890, to Oct. 1891. £ s. d. 



Balance, Oct. 18!)0 8 11 



Subscriptions 24 6 



£24 14 11 



Expenses. 



Oct. 1890, to Oct 1891. £ s. d. 



Footpath Association. 10 

 Eent, Gas, Cleaning, 



&c 17 10 6 



Printing 2 8 1 



Collector's Commission 110 



Postage Stamps 4 6 



Balance, Oct. 1891. . . . 3 10 



£24 14 11 



The following Officers were appoiuted for the ensuing 

 year : — President, Mr. W. H. Tyndall ; Treasurer, Mr. J. I. 

 Cudworth ; Secretary, Mr. A. J. Crosfield ; Curator, Mr. J, 

 Linnell ; Committee, Dr. Bossey, Messrs. R. Binns, J. Bonnor, 

 T. Cooper, J. B. Crosfield, W. Gilford, Ernest S. Salmon, 

 Charles E. Salmon, W. E. Tindall. 



It was decided that the meetings of the Club in November, 

 January, and Maicli be held at the Market Hall, Redhill. 



Specimens of Sirex ijigas, from Wotton, Surrey, were pre- 

 sented by W. J. Evelyn, Esq. 



The following objects were exhibited : — A flower of Orhea 

 lurida from South Africa, exhibited by Mr. Thomas Cooper ; 

 cones of Cedrus deodara from his garden, exhibited by Mr. J. 

 I. Cudworth. Mr. Brown explained that the smaller catkins 

 were young male catkins of the first year, which would ripen 

 after two years ; and that the larger cones were cones of last 

 year. He said that the male catkins usually grow on the 

 lower part of the tree ; and the female usually on the higher 

 boughs. 



Mr. N. E. Brown, of Kew, then described certain Curious 

 Flowees and their Fertilisation. 



With the aid of numerous diagrams, he very ably and fully 

 explained the mode of fertilisation of Aristolochia clematitis, 

 Coryanthes, a genus of Orchid, Asdepias, and of a species of 

 Fig. 



Mr. Brown stated that there are seven or eight hundred 



