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MEETINGS OF SECTIONS. 
ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION. 
October 15th, 1868.— Mr. S. Barton, President, in the Chair, 
Mr. E. C. Reed exhibited a quantity of small Ooleoptera, taken by him in 
Brazil. Many of them were closely allied to some of the British Genera. In 
the course of his remarks Mr. Reed stated, that it was a mistake to suppose 
that all tropical insects were large, as upwards of ninety per cent, were as 
small as those now shown. 
The President then exhibited a fine specimen of Monohammus dentator. 
It had not long left the pupa. It was brought to him alive, having been 
taken in the neighbourhood. Its antennae measured eight inches from tip to 
tip. He also showed four species of Coleoptera, which had been found, alive 
in a small packing case from Barbadoes ; there were, he said, many examples 
of one species, but not having been able as yet to compare them, he could 
not say what they were. 
The Hon. Secretary then exhibited the result of a dayYcollecting in South 
Wales, near Swansea. His box contained about five hundred specimens, and 
nearly sixty species, amongst which were large numbers of Nebria complanata 
and Broscus cephalotus, which he distributed amongst the members of the 
Section. 
BOTANICAL SECTION. 
October 15th. — The first Meeting of the Session was held at the residence 
of Mr. S. Derham. After that gentleman had entertained the Members at 
tea, Mr. Leipner, President, occupying the Chair : — 
A conversation took place on the effects of the late weather on vegetation, 
and instances were mentioned of the Corsus sanguinea being now in flower, 
and of a second crop of apples being formed on the trees. 
The Rev. W. W. Spicer, presented to the Section the plants he had been 
collecting for the Society's Herbarium during the past summer, numbering 
456 species and varieties, admirably dried and mounted, and arranged 
according to the London Botanical Catalogue, and the Index Fungorum 
