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Summary of Proceedings for the Year 1889-90. 
Mr. PRESIDENT AND GENTLEMEN, 
After the Anniversary Meeting, on the 18th February, 1889, 
when the machinery of the Club was again started for another 
year by the election of Vice-President and other officers, the 
first event to be noted was the afternoon meeting on March 13th, 
when the last two communications of the Session were devoted to 
Natural History—the first by Col. Lindley Blathwayt (unfor- 
tunately unable to be present himself through illness) and the 
second by Mr. George Norman. Col. Blathwayt’s paper, being a 
continuation of that read on Sth February, 1888, on Hemiptera- 
Heteroptera taken in the neighbourhood of Bath, and consisting 
of a list of those Plant ‘‘ Bugs,” which he had collected in the 
district, and was ready to place in the Institution so soon as 
there was a cabinet to receive them, was printed in the last 
number of the “ Proceedings.” The total number of species he 
has collected amounts to 65. 
Mr. NorMAN contributed some useful notes on the Duncan 
Local Museum. At the outset he stated they were not original, 
but merely collected together from other sources ; tending, how- 
ever, to make better known—what was hitherto so little known— 
the admirable collection of local natural history brought together 
by the loving industry of their venerable President. (Vide 
“ Proceedings,” Vol. vii., No. 1, p. 1). 
The Rev. E. T. Srupps, who presided in the absence of the 
Chairman, Mr. Skrine, thanked Mr. Norman for the trouble he 
had taken in putting together these notes, and having the 
various specimens alluded to brought down for inspection. The 
study of Natural History was at all times interesting, and such 
notes as these, whilst serving to illustrate what the Museum 
already had, also served to indicate what was wanting in the 
local collection. With reference to the remarkable size of the 
