VOL. XVII. (i) ORDINARY WINTER MEETINGS 



ORDINARY WINTER MEETINGS 



Tuesday, November i6th, 1909 



\ 

 Rev. \V.\lter Butt, M.A., President, in the Chair. 



The Minutes of the last Meeting were read and confirmed. 



The President announced that the Rev, H. J. Riddelsdell had sent him 

 ahst of the plants found during the Bull th- Wells excursion of the Club. It 

 was a very long list, and included some records new to the district. Mr 

 Riddelsdell had recorded these in the Journal of Botany for September, 1909, 

 where there appeared the following note : — " New County Records. — During 

 the Cotteswold Club's Meeting at Builth, July 13th to 15th, the following 

 ' new county records ' (taking Top. Bot. and 1905 supplement as the standard) 

 were established : For Breconshire (v. — c. 42), Seditni purpureum, Tauch., 

 Campanula latifolia, L., Polygala oxyptera, Reichb., Valeriana dioica, L., 

 Lobelia Dortmanna, L., Carex contigua, Hoppe, and Carex inflata, Huds." 



The Rev. A. R. Winnington-Ingram exhibited portions of a wasps' nest 

 that had peculiar peg-like processes connecting the successive layers of cells. 



Mr T. S. Ellis exhibited a relief-model of the Severn Basin and the 

 West Midlands. 



Mr L. Richardson exhibited two specimens of grasshoppers sent him by 

 Mr G. W. S. Brewer, F.G.S., of Nailsworth. Mr Brewer wrote : — " I am for- 

 warding herewith two specimens of the grasshopper which I believe is known 

 as the Green Grasshopper (Locusta viridissima). The specimens were taken 

 in September 7th to 14th — one at a part of Nailsworth known as Newmarket, 

 the other at Forest Green, in a garden. Another specimen was shown to me 

 on September i6th, having been captured in a bedroom. I also heard a few 

 days later another specimen ' singing ' in the corner of a field near where the 

 second specimen was taken. I am unable to say whether the insect is at all 

 imcommon, but I do not recollect capturing any specimen before." It was 

 suggested that they should be sent to Mr H. J. Elwes, F.R.S., with a request 

 for information. 



[Mr James Edwards, F.E.S., secretary to Mr Elwes, who examined the 

 specimens, replied {in lift. Nov. i8th, 1909): " the Great Green Grasshopper 

 is not, in my experience, common in this county; it is usually regarded as a 

 coast insect, and, as such, is recorded as occurring from Cromer to Land's 

 End, and also from Rhossilly in Glamorgan. I used to get it occasionally in 

 the Norwich district, and the Rev. J. G. W'ood took it near Oxford."] 



Mr Richardson also read a letter from Francis Druce (of 65 Cadogan- 

 square, London), in which Mr Druce said he had found the grass of Parnassus 

 (Parnassia palustris) in flower by the River Dickler, at Hyde Mill, near 

 Stow-on-the-Wold. Mr Druce also sent photographs of a tree that had been 

 struck by lightning about 4.15 p.m. on September 17th, 1909. The tree 

 is situated about 150 yards south-west of Stow Station. 



