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ledging the compliment, said that though he had not been with 
the Club so much as usual during the past year, he had been 
practising its principles and working in sympathy withit. Thus, 
being in France, he paida visit to the remarkable Roman excava- 
tions at Sanxerre, near Poictiers. He said a very fine and 
complete system of baths had been found there, but nothing so 
large as the great Roman bath at Bath. The proceedings shortly 
afterwards terminated, and the more serious work of the Session 
commenced with the 
AFTERNOON MEETINGS 
On March 14th. Mr. Broome continued his account of the 
Fungi found in the neighbourhood of Bath (vide page 143), and 
Dr. BrrD communicated a paper on the Beetles of the Bath district, 
and a collection of the same was exhibited. After some 
preliminary remarks on this order of insects, and the large number 
of species it embraces, he spoke of their general structures— 
especially their nervous system—their habits, and the purposes 
they appear to serve in Nature ; these purposes being beneficial 
in some cases, but destructive in others ; dwelling particularly on 
the injuries they cause to garden produce and many field crops: 
A reference list of names was given in to accompany the collection. 
As, however, the correctness of some of these names is doubtful, 
and there are many specimens not named at all, it was not 
thought desirable at present to print the list in the Proceedings of 
the Club, but simply to indicate the chief families to which the 
species belong. They are as follows :—Carabide, Cicindeliday 
Dyticide, Sylphide, Byrrhide, Histeride, Lucanide, Scarabeide, 
Melotonthide, Cetoniide, Eluateride, Telephoride, Curculionide, 
Crioceride, Galerucide, Chrysomelidew, Coccinellide, Tenebrionide, 
| Blapside, Melandryide, Staphylinide. 
The next meeting, and the first commencing the winter portion 
_of the Session, was held on Wednesday, Dec. 12th, Mr. Skrine in 
