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writing, and that such nominations be sent to the secretary 

 not later than the nth January; that a printed hst of the 

 nominations for all the oflficers of the club be circulated at the 

 annual meeting, and that the members present vote by ballot 

 by striking out such names as they do not desire to vote for, 

 and putting the lists in an urn to be placed on the table. 

 Scrutineers to be appointed at the meeting, and the votes to 

 be counted and declared during the course of the meeting. 



The following papers were then read : — " Notes on the nest 

 of the Carder Bee," by Dr. Alfred Carpenter ; " On one of the 

 means by which Forest Trees may be destroyed, as instanced 

 by the case of a Birch Tree," by the same ; " Note on the 

 occurrence of Achatina acicula on Park Hill," by Mr. K. 

 McKean. 



Dr. Carpenter exhibited a tumour which had been removed 

 from an elm tree in Shirley Churchyard, and expressed a 

 belief that the time was not far distant when medical men, by 

 studying the diseases of plants, wovild find out some matters 

 connected with perverted nutrition which would enable them 

 to deal more successfully with diseases that occurred in human 

 beings, and which they were unable to remove at present 

 except by cutting out. 



The following exhibits were made, viz.: — ^Jas. Epps, jun., 

 Hydra viridis ; Ed. Lovett, Sertularia argentea ; John Flower, 

 wing bones of Black Swan and Greater black-backed Gull ; 

 K. McKean, mature and immature specimens of Achatina 

 acicula ; W. Low Sargeant, Wasp's nest (vespa vulgaris), one 

 showing commencement of the nest, and the other the com- 

 plete nest with hybernating female wasps ; E. B. Sturge, Birch 

 Bark, and Lichen from Elm ; Nat. Waterall, sections of 

 Beetle Stones. 



Twelfth Annual Meeting, jfamiary i8th, 1882. 

 Philip Crowley, Esq., F.Z.S., President, in the Chair. 



The minutes of the last meeting were read and confirmed. 



The following gentlemen were ballotted for and duly elected 

 members : — Mr. F. F. Garrad, Rev. George Bailey, Mr. 

 Edward W. Foss, Mr. Charles J. Foss, Rev. George Henry 

 Huddleston, Rev. R. Milbarn Blackiston, Mr. Thomas Robert 

 Tufnell, Mr. James Stocks Miller, Mr. Samuel Jones, Mr. 

 Thomas Dawson, Mr. Henry Lee Berney, ^Ir. S. Mordaunt, 

 Mr. P. G. Guimaraens, Mr. Henry C. Collyer. 



The report and balance-sheet of the committee for 1881, as 

 follows, was read by the Hon. Secretary : — 



