October nth, iSgy.] PROCEEDINGS. xiii 



\Microscopical aftd Natural History Section^ 



Ordinary Meeting, October nth, 1897. 



Mark Stirrup, F.G.S., President of the Section, 

 in the Chair. 



The President gave an address on Finland, recently visited 

 by members of the Geological Congress, illustrated by maps 

 and rock specimens. The geological structure of pre-Cambrian 

 rocks and the present glaciated land-surface were described ; the 

 eskers of sand and gravel now used in many instances for lines 

 of road, the coast islands, forests of coniferous trees and the 

 innumerable lakes all connected by canals forming a network of 

 waterways over the whole country. Traces of gold have been 

 found in the northern parts. 



Mr. Cosmo Melvill described and exhibited specimens of 

 a plant just reported as a native of Great Britain : — namely, 

 Stachys alpina L. found by Mr. Cedric Bucknill in a coppice 

 on a hill near Wootton-under-Edge, Gloucestershire. 



Mr. Henry Hyde exhibited specimens of Sisymbrium 

 strictissimu7?i L., a plant new to England, also of Vicia orobus and 

 Hieracium amplexicauie. See Proceedings of the Society^ p. viii. 



A paper by Mr. Peter Cameron, F.E.S., illustrated by 

 specimens, was submitted, entitled : — '• A collection of Hy- 

 menoptera from Greymouth, New Zealand, with a 

 catalogue of the recorded New Zealand species." 



This paper is printed in full in the Memoirs. 



