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was well attended. This demonstration seems to have been 

 highly appreciated by those present, and it is hoped during the 

 present year that several similar meetings may be arranged. It 

 is the feeling of the Sub- Committee that something of the kind 

 is necessary to awaken an interest in microscopic studies amongst 

 the younger members of the Club. The microscope has of late 

 years passed beyond the stage of being a mere scientific toy, and 

 the field of research still unexplored is enormous. 



Eeport of the Photographic Sub-Committee for 1892. 



In handing you the Report of the Sub-Committee of the Photographic 

 Section of the Club, I am pleased to say that the Section has passed 

 through a very successful season. Eight excursions were made during 

 the summer ; two being General and Pliotographic, and six Photo- 

 graphic. Technical and Conversational Meetings have been held once 

 a month, as well as the monthly lantern nights, and trial nights for 

 members' slides. 



At the Soiree, the Sectional Exhibit was small (small from the 

 number of members exhibiting), but otherwise good; but I am sorry 

 at the same time to say that, considering the large number of members 

 that the Section consists of, it was not such a large exhibit as might 

 have been expected. 



The General Committee have gone to great expense and trouble in 

 fitting up the room next to the Club room as a dark room for the 

 Photographic Section ; water, gas, and a developing table have been 

 supplied with dishes, measures, &c., and, in fact, everything reqiiisite 

 and necessary for the carrying on of Pliotographic work. And it is 

 hoped by the Committee that the members will endeavour to use the 

 same in a way that will at least let those who have taken so much 

 trouble and time for the Section see that their efforts to please and 

 further the interest of the Section have not been made in vain. — 

 Harry D. Gower. 



The Zoological Section has an interesting record so far as 

 Entomology is concerned. The season of 1892 was a remarkable 

 one in respect to insect life. For some years butterflies have 

 been getting quite scarce, but this year they were abundant. In 

 our gardens were to be seen the blues and the small coppers as 

 of yore, whilst the Vanesms — urticm, atnlanta, and io — were really 

 quite common, as also were several of the PieiidcB. Perhaps the 

 event of the year was the profusion of Colias edusa, with some 

 V. hrjale, and a few of the interesting variety C. helice. Mr. 

 Berney records many captures of them at Eussell Hill, where 

 also, and elsewhere, Mr. Harry Lee took a number. Mr. Mennell 

 also records early hybernating specimens in June at Park Hill, 

 and he says he saw later specimens almost wherever he travelled, 

 Essex, Somerset, &c. It would be curious to know the cause of 

 these intermittent occurrences, for in some years it is a very 

 scarce insect, 



