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MAY 22rd, 1 90 1. 



Mr. W. J. Lucas, B.A., Vice-President, in the Chair. 



Mr. Step exhibited the eggs of the redstart {Ruticilla 

 phcenicnnis) , found during the field meeting of the Society at 

 Oxshott on May i8th. 



Mr. Robert Adkin exhibited a Hving example of the 

 coleopteron Pyrophorus noctilucus, commonly known as the 

 " fire-fly," received from Jamaica. During the voyage and 

 since its arrival in this country, some ten days before the 

 date of the meeting, the insect had been supplied with sugar 

 and water on a sponge and small pieces of sugar-cane, on 

 which it appeared to have fed freely. He mentioned that 

 the insect had, soon after its arrival, given several brilliant 

 displays of its luminous powers, but during the few days 

 preceding the meeting it appeared to have become feeble 

 and to have lost the power of emitting the light. He pointed 

 out the yellow patches, one on either side of the thorax, 

 from which the light was given off, and referred members 

 desiring further information regarding the species to the 

 " Cambridge Natural History," vol. vi., p. 258. He also 

 exhibited the cartilaginous vertebrae of a shark, a specimen 

 of sugar-cane measuring 5^ inches in circumference, and a 

 green cocoa pod with seeds in situ, — all from the same locality. 



Mr. F. M. B. Carr exhibited series of some thirty species 

 of Lepidoptera that he had reared or captured during 1901. 



Mr. E. Step, under the title " Spring Notes — chiefly 

 Botanical," gave a lantern demonstration of photographs 

 taken during the last and present springs, depicting many 

 Surrey wild flowers and bird's-nests, and made comments 

 upon these as they appeared. 



JUNE i2th, 1901. 



Mr. H. S. Kremlin, F.E.S., President, in the Chair. 



Messrs. R. Armstrong Adkin, Lingard's Road, Lewisham ; 

 R. Armstrong, of Granville Road, Lewisham ; W. Dodds, of 

 Stoke Newington ; and W. Thornethwaite, of Hersham, 

 were elected members. 



Mr. Lucas exhibited a living lizard {Platydactylus niuralis) 

 which came in a crate of bananas from the Canaries, and 



