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October 5th. — Oxshott (The Fungus Foray) . Conductor : 

 Mr. Stanley Edwards, F.L.S. 



In addition to the above, two other meetings were held : 



March 23rd. — A visit to the private portion of the British 

 Museum (S. Kensington) Bird Department, under the 

 guidance of Dr. Bowdler Sharpe, F.L.S. ; and — 



September 14th. — A visit to Kew Gardens, conducted 

 by Mr. Geo. Nicholson, F.L.S., at the instance of Mr. 

 Sich. 



These meetings were all well attended, some thirty-three 

 attending the Netley Heath meeting, while thirty sat down 

 to tea at the Box Hill gathering. With the exception of 

 one day the weather was favourable. 



Mr. West, the Society's Curator, reports as follows with 

 regard to the Collections : 



" During the year a most useful addition to the Reference 

 Collections has been made by Mr. L. W. Newman, con- 

 sisting of some eighty species of Macro-Lepidoptera, thus 

 making that part of the Collection fairly complete. Mr. 

 Sich placed in the cabinet a specimen of Plodia interpunc- 

 tclla captured in the Society's rooms." 



The following is a list of the additions to the Library : 



" British Lepidoptera," vol. v, " Plumes," by J. W. Tutt ; 

 vol. viii, " Butterflies," by J. W. Tutt; 



" List of British Diptera," by G. H. Verrall, from Mr. 

 Stanley Edwards ; 



Stephens' " British Entomology," 12 vols. ; 



Shields' " Practical Hints on Collecting Lepidoptera," 

 from Mr. R. Adkin ; 



" British Moths," vol. i, by R. South, from Mr. W. F. 

 Warne ; 



" Entomologist Record," 1907, from Mr. Coote ; 



" A Mullerian Group of Butterflies from the Potaro Dis- 

 trict of British Guiana," by W. J. Kaye, from the Author ; 



" List of Coleoptera of the Oxford District," by Com- 

 mander J. J. Walker, from the Author; 



A Map of Villers Cotterets (near Laon), from Mr. Dawson ; 



Publications of the Horniman Museum (Guide, Birds' 

 Eggs, Marine Aquaria, Vivaria, etc., Animal Life, Stone, 



