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valuable, were purcbased foi’ presentation to the Society’s 
library. 
At the annual meeting, on March 14, 1884, the hon. sec. 
read two papers entitled “The Life-history ' of Lithospermum 
purpureo-cmruleum, L./’ and “ The Flora of the Avon-bed.” 
These are published in the current number of the Transactions. 
J. W. WHITE, Hon. Sec. 
GEOLOGICAL SECTION^ 
PEIL 12th, at the invitation of Mr. C. Eichardson, an 
excursion was taken to the railway cutting and works of 
the South Wales Union Eailway. The party went by train to 
Pilning, and thence walked through the cutting in the alluvium. 
Mr. Eichardson called attention to some beds of peat, which 
appear to indicate alterations in the level of the land. 
At Whitsuntide an excursion was made to Salisbury and 
neighbourhood. On Monday the museums were visited, and 
then Old Sarum and Stonehenge. On Tuesday the Valley of 
the Nadder was visited, and the geology explained by Professor 
Sollas. On Wednesday the party went to Wilton and Heytes- 
bury, and thence returned to Bristol. 
A. C. PASS, Hon. Sec. 
ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION. 
D UEING the summer of 1883 only two excursions of the 
Section were taken, to Glen Froom, Stapleton, and to the 
neighbourhood of Wotton- under -Edge. During the latter 
