IReport of flDeetmgs. 
For the year ending December jist, igu. 
VTINE Meetings were held during- this Session, the average 
11 attendance at each being 58. 
The Subjects introduced were as follows : — 
Jan. igth. — Annual Meeting. Presidential Address by Mr. G. 
Munro Smith : " Nature's Appeal." 
Paper entitled "Beetles as Pests," by Mr. C. T. 
Gimingham. 
Demonstration of arrangement by which the dis- 
charge of spores from a Polyporus was rendered 
visible 
Feb. 2nd. — Exhibition of Specimens of larva of a Field-bug, by 
Mr. C. K. Rudge. 
Feb. i6ih. — Special Lecture by Mr. Grant Lane : " Wild Life in 
the Bush." 
Mar. 2nd. — Papers by Mr. F. de la M. Norris on " Observa- 
tions on the cystidia in a species of Coprinus," 
and by Dr. W. D. Henderson on "The Parental 
Care of Animals." 
Exhibition of a Pipe Fish, by Mr. C. K. Rudge. 
April 6th. — Paper by Dr. A. B. Prowse on " Ice." 
May 4th. — Special Lecture by Mr. Stephen Paget on "The 
Life of Pasteur." 
Oct. $th. — Lecture by Mr. Martin Duncan on "The Romance 
of Marine Zoology." 
Nov. 2nd. — Lecture on "Autumn Tints," by Miss I. M. Roper 
Dec. Jth.— Paper by Mr. J. W. Eves on " Geographical Distribu- 
tion." 
Exhibition of specimens of the Green Sandpiper, 
Redshank, Jack-Snipe, and Knot, by Mr. D. 
Munro Smith. 
There were 5 members and 5 associates elected during the 
Session, and 9 resignations of membership. The Society lost the 
valuable services of Mr. Priestley, who resigned his Secretaryship 
on his appointment as Professor of Botany at Leeds. Dr. W. D. 
Henderson was elected in his place as Hon. Secretary of this 
Society. 
It will be noticed in the above list that on two occasions 
(February 16th and May 4th) Special Lectures were given by 
Mr. Grant Lane and Mr. Stephen Paget respectively. These were 
well attended and thoroughly appreciated. 
