REPORT OF MEETINGS. 
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Nov. 15th. — Exhibition Meeting. 
Dec. 20th. — “ On the Inferior Oolite and contiguous deposits of 
Bar.h-Doulting District,” by L. Richardson, F.G.S. 
There was an average attendance (excluding the Exhibition 
Meeting) of 16 members. 
The Financial Report shows a total receipt of £8 5s., including a 
balance brought forward of £2 15s. from last year. The expenditure 
has been £5 17s. 4d., leaving a balance of <£2 7s. 8d to be carried 
forward. The receipts this year have exceeded those of last year by 
. 7s, 6d., as some members whose subscriptions were in arrears have 
paid. Had all members paid their subscriptions to date, the section 
would be in a much better position. The expenses include an item 
of £2 which was voted towards defraying the expense of printing 
the photographs of the Avon Section to illustrate Dr. Vaughan’s 
paper. Besides this, a private subscription was made for the same 
, object, to which the members of the Section liberally contributed. 
B. A. BAKER, F.G.S., 
Ifon. Secretary. 
ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION. 
J ANUARY 9th. — Mr. R. M. Prideaux sent for exhibition a box 
of butterflies, taken by him in Switzerland in 1905, principally 
from the Rhone Valley between Montreux and Brigue. 
Feb. 20th. — Mr. G. C. Griffiths exhibited the two interleaved 
volumes of Stainton’s Manual of British Butterflies and Moths be- 
longing to the late Rev. Joseph Green, containing beautiful water 
colour drawings executed by him from life. 
Mr. Griffiths also exhibited varieties of Abraxas grossulariata, in- 
cluding var. lacticolor, and an abnormal specimen of Anosia plexippus 
from Fiji, each pair of wings being of different sizes. 
The capture of two Acronycta strigosa by sugar at Sandhurst, 
Glos., by the Rev. G. M. Smith, was reported. 
April 3rd. — Mr. Edgar A. Prichard exhibited two rare works on 
Entomology, viz. : — “ Natural History of English Insects ” by Eleazar 
Albin, 1767, containing 100 coloured plates, and “The Theatre of 
Insects” by Thomas Mouffet, Doctor in Physick, 1658. 
Mr. G. C. Griffiths exhibited some Geometrcc from Queensland, 
Japan, &c. Mr. H. J. Charbonnier gave an account of the life 
history of the larva of the May fly. Ephemera vulgata. 
Dr. C. King Rudge exhibited a case of Indian lepidoptera. 
The Hon. Secretary exhibited a box of lepidoptera and coleoptera 
from Orokolo, British New Guinea. 
May 2nd. — Mr. G. C. Griffiths exhibited a framed water colour 
painting, by the late Rev. Joseph Green, of some magnificent varieties 
in his collection of 10 Chelonia caja and 12 (7. Villica. 
