pein ey PROCEEDINGS OF SOCIETIES. 331 
September 8th. Annual meeting. Mr. T. H. Hennah, President, in 
the chair.—The following officers for the ensuing year were elected :— 
President, Mr. F. Merrifield; Committee, Messrs. R. Glaisyer, J. 
Dennant, G. D. Sawyer, Haselwood, Rev. J. H. Cross, and Dr. Bad- 
cock; Treasurer, Mr. T. B. Horne; Hon. Secretaries, Messrs. T. W. 
Wonfor and J. C. Onions; Hon. Librarian, Mr. Gwatkin. The name 
of Mr. T. H. Hennah, the out-going President, was added to the list 
of Vice-Presidents. 
By the Committee’s report it appears that the Society is in a 
flourishing condition, there being a balance of 11. 19s. in the hands of 
the Treasurer, after expending 16/. 19s. in the purchase of new books 
and periodicals, and in the publication of the ‘Moss Flora of Sussex.’ 
By purchase and donations the library has been increased to 643 
volumes. During the year a microscopical section was formed experi- 
mentally with such success that its continuance was recommended, the 
effect of which is to make the meetings of the Society bi-monthly, the 
second in each month being a microscopical one. Two active members 
of this Society, Messrs. W. Verrall and T. Eden (the latter a Vice- 
President), had been removed by death. The thanks of the Society 
were due to those who had read papers, exhibited specimens, micro- 
scopes, and contributed to the library and cabinet. 
From the abstract of the ‘Proceedings’ it appears papers on Mosses 
and on the Gemme of Mosses had been read by Mr. C. P. Smith; 
on Volcanic Theories and the Presence of Copper in Coal-Gas, by 
Mr. J. E. Mayall; on Diptera and their Wings, by Mr. Peake; on 
Soundings, made by Sir E. Parry in the Arctic Seas in 1818; and 
on Systematic Recent Examination with moderate Powers, by Mr. 
T. H. Hennah; on British Gall-Flies and their Parasites, by W. H. 
Kidd; on Sussex Centenarians, by Mr. J. Robertson; on the Verte- 
brate and Invertebrate Eye, compared by Dr. Hallifax; and on Seeds, 
the Attractive Power of Female Moths, Infusoria, The Annual Excur- 
sion, and the Eggs of Articulata, by Mr. T. W. Wonfor. In addition 
there had been six microscopical meetings and two meetings for the 
exhibition of specimens. There had been six Field Excursions and a 
Dredging Expedition, in addition to the Annual Excursion. Votes of 
thanks were passed to the Officers of the Society and to the Medico- 
Chirurgical Society for permission to use the room at the Dispensary. 
The meeting then became general for the exhibition of specimens, 
when Mr. F. Merrifield, the newly-elected President, took the chair. 
Mr. Robertson wished some record could be preserved of some of 
the ingenious methods of microscopical manipulation, shown at the 
last meeting by Messrs. Hennah, Wonfor, and Dr. Hallifax. Messrs, 
Hennah and Wonfor explained that as far as practicable such had been 
done ; but many things shown were to be found well explained in 
Carpenter and Quekett. 
Mr. Pocock exhibited a specimen of D, Galii (the bed straw hawk 
moth), caught by his father at Kemp Town. 
Mr. Wonfor remarked that, owing to the very dry summer, this 
rare moth and D. livornica (striped hawk moth) had been plentiful, 
about twenty specimens of the two having been captured near Brighton, 
as well as three larve taken, from which moths had been bred. 
