REPORT OF MEETINGS. 
GEOLOGICAL SECTION, 191 1. 
rpHERE have been seven meetings during the year, when the 
JL following- papers were read : — 
Jan. 26th.—" Lakes," by the President (Prof. S. H. Reynolds 
M.A., F.G.S.). 
Feb. 24th.— " Fossil Plants," by J. H. Priestley, B.Sc. 
March 23rd. — "Glacial Periods and their Causes," by G. R. 
Holligan, B.Sc. 
April 27th. — " The Lithology of the Carboniferous Limestone of 
Burrington Combe," by the President (Prof. S. H. Reynolds, 
M.A., F.G.S.). 
Oct. 19th. — " Some Famous Geological Controversies," by the 
President (Prof. S. H. Reynolds, M A, F.G.S.). 
Nov. 9th — " A Geological Holiday in Skye," by C. I. Gardiner, 
M.A., F.G.S (of Cheltenham College) ; this paper was illustrated 
by a relief model of the island. 
Dec. 7th. — An Exhibition Meeting. 
At the end of the year there were 46 members, but 8 of them 
joined under the new rule which admits students of the University 
as members of the section separately from the Bristol Naturalists' 
Society. 
I have to record the death of Dr. T. D. Nicholson, who had 
been a member of the section for over 10 years, and took a 
great interest in its meetings 
The Financial Report shows a total receipt of £6 17s 6d., 
including a balance of ^3 5s. od. brought forward from the previous 
year. The expenditure amounted to £6 j6s. 3d., which included 
£2 voted at the February Meeting towards the cost of printing 
the Proceedings of the Bristol Naturalists' Society, leaving a 
balance of is. 3d. to be carried forward to next year. 
B. A. BAKER, F.G.S., Hon. Sec. 
ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION. 
ONE Meeting only was held during the year, on November 16, 
when Mr. Charbonnier brought forward his Local List of 
Diptera, covering an area bounded on the North by Painswick 
and on the South by Shepton Mallet. 690 species were recorded, 
and Mr. Charbonnier read the introduction and many interesting 
notes from the list, which consisted of 40 fcap. pages. It was 
unanimously resolved to ask the Society to publish the list in the 
Proceedings, and Mr. Charbonnier was warmly congratulated 
upon his achievement. 
Mr. Griffiths exhibited a spider's nest from Mombassa, B.E. 
Africa, also specimens of Parnassus Appolloninus , P. Romanosi, 
P. StaiLdingeri, P. Intermedins, P. Nebulosus, all from Turkestan, 
and Doritis Appolinus, Europe. 
Hon. Secretary showed 2 Crymodes exults, Shetland and Unst ; 
3 Xanthia ocellaris, Thames Valley ; Macrogiossa fuciformis, 
Brockley Coombe ; and Trochilium bembeciformis, Abbotsbury. 
CHARLES BARTLETT, Hon. Sec. 
