Proceedings. cxxvii. 



the Journals of the Quekett Microscopical Club, from that Club ; the 

 Proceedings of the Belgian Microscopical Society, from that Society; 

 Science Gossip, from the Publishers ; Notes on the British 

 Stalk-eyed Crustacea, from Mr. Lovett ; the Transactions of the 

 Norwich and Norfolk Naturalists' Society, from that Society; Report 

 of the Migration of Birds in the Spring and Autumn of 1880, from 

 Mr. Sturge ; the Weather of 1881 as observed in the neighbourhood 

 of London, from E. Mawley ; the Rosarian's Year Book, from the 

 Author ; Third Annual Report of the Lewisham and Blackheath 

 Scientific Association ; Fourth Annual Report of the Erith and 

 Belvedere Natural History and Scientific Society; the Journal of 

 Science, from the Publishers ; Address of the President of the 

 British Association, 1882, from Mr. Gushing ; Proceedings of the 

 Berwickshire Naturalists' Club ; List of Foreign Correspondents of 

 the Smithsonian Institution to January, 1882 ; Abstracts of the 

 Transactions of the Royal Society, from the beginning (bound), from 

 Mr. Topley ; Cabinet for Slides illustrating " Microscopical Studies," 

 from Mr. W. F. Stanley. 



The Librarj' has received a most welcome addition through the 

 kindness of Dr. Carpenter, who, m May last placed 96 valuable 

 books of reference with the Committee on loan. Mr. Mennell has 

 also lent to the Club, for purposes of reference, 28 volumes. A list 

 of these books will be given in the proceedings. In addition to the 

 loan collections the library has been augmented by 17 volumes of 

 the Abstracts of the Proceedings of the Royal Society from the 

 beginning, presented by Mr. Topley. 



There has been no increased demand among members for books 

 on loan. 



The thanks of the Club are due to Mr. Mennell for editing the 

 Proceedings and Transactions of the Club for 1881, and to Mr. 

 McKean for editing the Report for 1872. By the publication of this 

 latter report the gap which existed in the Reports of the Club has 

 been filled up. 



The attendance at the meetings of the Club has been good. 



Your Committee have the pleasure to submit the following short 

 reports of the work of the different Sub-Committees during the past 

 year. 



Zoological Committee. 



The Entomological section of the Zoological sub-committee have 

 to report that their list of local Lepidoptera is now being compared 

 with the newly-issued Doubleday catalogue, and is nearly completed, 

 and that it will be laid before the Club at an early date. 



The committee are greatly desirous of enlisting workers in the 

 departments of Coleoptera, Diptera, and Hymeitoptcra, which have, up 

 to the present received very little attention. The winter of 18S1-S2 

 was excessively mild, and the summer which followed was the most 

 barren known for many years to insect collectors. It may be worth 

 mentioning, as being perhaps not generally known, that cold dry 

 winters are invariably followed by seasons of abundant insect life, 

 and, conversely, warm winters are succeeded by a paucity of insect 

 life. The reasons are probably not far to seek, for in mild winters 

 the ground remains soft, and the grubs and pupae are readily obtained 



