KEPORTS OF MEETINGS. 
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ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION* 
D uring the year only one out-door excursion was taken by 
the Section. Wotton-under-Edge was visited in June^ 
and a large number of species were taken. 
At the in-door meetings of the Section no papers of import- 
ance have been read, but a very large number of specimens of 
different orders, both British and foreign, have been exhibited^ 
including many rare and interesting species. 
GEORGE HARDING, Hon. Sec. 
GEOLOGICAL SECTION. 
N May 10th, 1884, an excursion was made to Ban well, 
xJ when the bone cave and also the deep cave were examined. 
In the latter is a remarkable deposit or incrustation of sulphate 
of baryta, which appears, hitherto, to have been unnoticed ; 
probably having been mistaken for stalagmitic carbonate of lime. 
At Whitsuntide an excursion, extending over four days, was 
taken to the neighbourhood of Bournemouth and Christchurch. 
The coast was examined, and the Barton clay beds yielded a 
large number of fossils. This excursion, from Saturday to 
Tuesday, proved very satisfactory to all who joined it. 
On September 10th, by invitation of Mr. Charles Richardson^ 
C.E., an excursion was made to New Passage, to examine the 
tunnel cutting on the South Wales Union Railway. The 
ancient river-bed of the Severn, consisting of a great deposit of 
gravel, and also the overlying deposit of alluvium and peat con- 
