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that in other parts the number was not below the average. 
Wasps were rather plentiful for a short time, but it was a very 
short time; and I believe it was a good honey year; but there 
was a sad lack of moths and butterflies. I always consider 
that one of the most beautiful things in the garden in autumn is 
the swarm of Peacock butterflies on the Michaelmas daisies ; 
this year there were scarcely any. 
But I must bring my paper to a close, and I must close it in 
the same lame way in which I have felt obliged to finish my 
papers in other years ; by apologizing for its length. Iam very 
conscious that I have allowed myself to wander from the straight 
road of my subject into many bye-paths, but you will pardon me 
for doing so when I tell you that I have been tempted to wander 
much more than I have done, but I had to think of my hearers 
and I spared you. I may, however, say as some excuse for my 
wanderings, that however much I have wandered I have kept 
one point steadily before me. In my last paper, and in this, I 
have tried to show you what I feel myself that frost and drought 
are not the dreadful visitations that heartless gardeners make 
them out to be. More than that, I am sure, that though 
unpleasant while they last, they have their uses, and are as 
necessary as mild winters and the fruitful rain in its season. We 
may, in fact, feel quite sure that they are absolutely necessary ; 
and though we may not understand how it should be so, they do 
fill their proper allotted partsin the grand scheme under which 
we live; the scheme that has for its great object the well-being 
of all organic life. 
On a Ithetic Exposure at Boyce Hill. 
By the Rev. H. H. Winwoop, M.A., F.G.S., Vice-President. 
(Read January 13th, 1897.) — 
It will be necessary for me first to explain the locality of the 
Rheetic exposure to which the following notes refer :— 
In 1871, now 26 years ago, I had the pleasure of placing 
