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The only event of the year was the special evenmg with the micro- 

 scope on the 29th April, 1891, when the following gentlemen exhibited 

 a variety of interesting objects under their microscopes, viz. : — 

 Thomas Aldous, J. H. Baldock, J. Berney, P. Crowley, J. Epps, jun., 

 C. H. Goodman. H. Greenway, "W. M. Holmes, E. Lovett, J. E. 

 Syms, E. B. Sturge, N. Waterall, W. B. Priest (Quekett Mic. Club). 



It would be a good plan if we could combine to get more of the 

 "evenings with the microscope," but so many of our members have 

 given up their microscopes for photography, that it is somewhat 

 diflScult to get a sufficient number to exhibit. I am glad to see that 

 the latter section has been doing some excellent work in photographing 

 microscopic objects, a combination of science and art which ought to 

 be productive of some interesting evemngs with the lantern.— W. 

 MuRTON Holmes, Hon. Sec. 



Report of the Zoological Sub-Committee, January, 1891. 



TheEeport of the Zoological Sub-Committee is somewhat brief, and 

 I have therefore embodied a few remarks of my own with it. 



Mr. Berney writes that " Sambucaria," in its larval state, hyber- 

 nates, feeds up again in the spring, and does not appear as an imago 

 till the latter end of Jime. I had some larvae this autumn, and five of 

 them changed to pupae ; two came out on December 21th, 1891, as 

 imagines. 



During the summer Aphides had been troublesome in gardens, 

 especially the woolly aphis or American blight. I may mention that 

 a good remedy for these pests, as also for swarms of caterpillars on 

 trees, is as follows : — Syringe the affected trees just before rain with a 

 mixture of a gallon of water in which is dissolved a little soft-soap and 

 a teacupful of paralfin oil added and well stirred in. 



The larvae of Mamestra persicaria were very abundant, eating up all 

 flowering plants. The common white butterflies were, as of late 

 years, quite rare in our gardens. 



Cheimatobia brumata. — On Simday evening, Nov. 29th, about 

 6.30 to 10 p.m., there were a great number of the males of this moth 

 on the road lamps at Addiscombe. I examined about 20 lamps, and 

 every one had some of these moths upon them. I counted 25 speci- 

 mens on one lamp, and there were as many on several others. In the 

 main road there were only a few (three or four) on each lamp, and the 

 larger numbers were all on lamps in the lower parts of the locality. 

 The weather was misty and damp ; a dead calm, temperature about 

 43° F. The larvae of this moth do immense damage to various trees, 

 and the females are seimapteroiis. 



Report of the Photographic Sub-Committee, January, 1891. 



During the past few years the Photographic Section has been steadily 

 growing, and at the present time it is probably the stvongest section of 

 the Club. 



A brief history of its growth perhaps would not be amiss, as it will 

 show that when photography was first introduced into the Club it was 

 by no means a bad speculation, as we have gained many new members 

 other than pure students of nature. 



In 1883 ai:d 1884. The Section was not known, but there were 



