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March 20tli. ' British Lepiduptera, their Metamorphoses, 

 Structure, and Habits, with hints for Collectors,' by 

 Mr. W. H. Blaber. 

 April 17tii. ' Is there Coal in Surrey ? ' by Mr. W. Gilford. 



' Mid-winter in Corsica,' by Mr. A. J. Crosfield. 

 The interest of the Evening Meetings wasgi-eatly enhanced 

 by the exhibition of the following specimens: — Fungus from 

 house at Nutfield ; bullock-head seeds from Singapore ; bee- 

 tles from Penang ; rhinoceros -horn snuff-boxes ; seed-vessels 

 of a species of Ettphorbia ; various apparatuses used for the 

 production of fire ; preparations from the spleens of diseased 

 Canaries ; specimens illustrating new local records of plants; 

 Duke of Burgundy Fritillary Butterfly caught near Godstone ; 

 specimens of plants from the neighbourhood of Folkestone ; 

 hornet's nest from America ; viviparous specimen of Dactylis 

 r/lomerata ; nest of Long-tailed Tit ; skin of Little Grebe ; 

 fasciated bough of Ash ; plants from Cornwall ; photographs 

 of eggs in the nest, &c. ; eggs of Manx Shearwater and 

 Oystercatcher from the Scilly Islands ; skins of birds from 

 Norway ; Niptus hololeucus from London ; various insects and 

 pups and drawings of insects' eggs, &c. ; Helleborus viridis 

 from near Edenbridge ; a fine series of specimens of the Cur- 

 rant Moth and the Small Tortoiseshell Butterfly ; plants and 

 skms from Corsica. 



Some additional localities for some of our rarer plants have 

 _been reported to the Club by E. S. & C. E. Salmon, B. B. 

 Gough, and W. F. Tindall ; and some interesting ornitho- 

 logical observations were reported by B. B. Gough and J. B. 

 Crosfield. 



The museum library has been enriched by the following 

 donations :— ' Proceedings of the Croydon Microscopic and 

 Nat. Hist. Club, Feb. 1889— Jan. 1890,' also Feb. 1890— 

 Jan. 1891 ; presented by the Club. ' Kochester Naturalist,' 

 Oct. 1st, 1890, also for Jan. 1891 ; presented by the West 

 Kent Nat. Hist. Soc. Keprint of paper on " Tuberculosis in 

 Fowls," by Walter K. Sibley, M.B. ; presented by Dr. Hol- 

 man. ' Transactions and Journal of Proceedings of the 

 Dumfriesshire and Galloway Natural History and Anti- 



