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The membership of the section numbers about 70, and is slightly 

 on the increase ; it would have been better but for several resignations. 



The Committee hope that any members wishing to receive the 

 benefits of the section, or contemplating practising photography, will 

 send their names in to the Hon. Sec. of the section, from whom par- 

 ticulars as to use of dark room and lockers may be obtained. — Harry 

 D. GowER, Hon. Sec. 



From Mr. Mennell I learn that 



The Botanical Sub-Committee have nothing of interest to report ; 

 little or nothing has been done in connexion with the Club Herbarium, 

 and help from younger members in its arrangement, preservation, and 

 increase would be gratefully welcomed. In the ' Journal of Botany,' 

 the Rev. E. S. Marshall records the occurrence oi Fuma/ria parviflora 

 near Witley as an addition to the county flora. 



Mr. F. Barlow brought me specimens last September of one of the 

 balsams, Tmpatiens parviflora, from near Titsey ; this plant is nowhere 

 a native, but occurs in various localities as an alien — or introduced 

 plant. Senecio viscosus, which I noticed some three years ago as a 

 novelty in this section of the county, holds its own on Park Hill, and 

 was fairly abundant this summer. 



A conversational meeting was held under the direction of the 

 Botanical Sub-Committee on January 24th, at which I endeavoured to 

 explain and illustrate the best methods of selecting specimens of plants 

 for the Herbarium, so as to exemplify their more important characters, 

 as well as the best methods of drying, preserving and mounting them. 



The Honorary Secretary of the Meteorological Section reports 

 as follows : — 



The Meteorological Sub-Committee has continued its work under 

 the supervision of its Honorary Secretary, Mr. Bayard. The daily 

 rainfall of 52 stations in the Club district has been tabulated every 

 month, examined and corrected, and the results printed and issued to 

 the observers and all members of the Club interested in the question, 

 either before, or within a very few days after, the end of the month 

 succeeding that to which the statistics refer. Further particulars wiU 

 be found in the scientific report of the Sub -Committee, which will be 

 presented at the meeting next month. The expenses of the section 

 have amounted to £25 2s. 7d., towards which four gentlemen interested 

 in the work of the section contributed ^0, the Club paying the 

 balance. — F. C. Bayard, Hon. Sec. 



From the Geological Sub-Committee I have not received any 

 report. 



The Zoological Sub-Committee report that nothing has 

 occurred during the past season to call for special notice. Mr, 

 Berney gives me a list of families and species of moths taken in 

 his garden at Croydon in the evenings of the summer of 1893, 

 after 6 p.m. ; it comprises 66 species belonging to 17 families, 

 as follows : — Sphingidse 1 ; Sesidse 1 ; Hepialidae 2 ; Oncoptery- 



