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sections into consideration, and probably the addition of some 
photographic members to it would be of considerable service. 
Dr. Hinde has called my attention to a paper by Mr. W. W. 
Watts in the ‘Geological Magazine’ for January, 1897, in which 
he speaks of the ready help given by the Croydon Microscopical 
Society in supplying photographs of geological phenomena. 
Coming at this time it ought to act as an incentive to photo- 
graphers to make fresh efforts, for our district is by no means 
fully worked out. In a very short time what are now open 
spaces will be built over, and it would be interesting to have 
a record of what they were like before the incursion of bricks 
and mortar. : 
Another thing that photographers might take up with advan- 
tage would be the architectural details of old buildings which 
would be of great value, such as windows and doorways of 
churches, and the ironwork on doors, &c. 
Mr. H. T. Mennell writes :— 
' “There is nothing to report from the Botanical Sub-Committee, 
except that Mr. C. E. Salmon has found Ranunculus intermedius 
on Holmwood Common, and that Mr. Ernest §. Salmon reports 
Euphrasia Kerneri from Reigate, the plant having been submitted to 
and so named by Mr. Townsend, the great authority on this difficult 
genus.” 
Mr. Berney writes :— 
“IT have not heard from our members of any matter worth em- 
bodying in your Report. Personally I have little to say, as I did very 
little work in entomology last season. I can only mention that I 
captured in my garden nine Plusia moneta, making, with the two 
captured the previous season, eleven in all.” 
The presence of this moth in Croydon is very interesting, and 
if the rate of increase is maintained, we shall before long have 
it fairly common; but the market value of specimens will then 
be very much diminished, to the grief of the collectors of earlier 
examples. 
I may here mention the loss that zoology has sustained by 
the death of Lord Lilford on June 17th, 1896. His lordship 
was one of the chief ornithologists of his day, and did an 
immense deal in promoting the study of bird life, notably in 
preventing the keepers from ruthlessly destroying birds of prey 
on his estate, an example which I hope may be largely followed. 
His name will be especially familiar to visitors to the bird 
gallery of the Natural History Museum, to which he presented 
many valuable specimens. He had also probably the finest 
existing collection of birds at Lilford Park. 
