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Vou. IIT. APRIL 4, 1916. “Pint 10, 
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Eprror A.N. 
ORDINARY MEETINGS. 
ist February, 1916-—Mr. W. W. Froggatt, E.LS., 
President, in the chair, and 45 present. 
Mr. J. A. Pattinson was elected a member. 
The Hon. Treasurer announced that the Society had 
invested the sum of £50 in the War Loan. 
The Hon. Secretary notified that the Publication Com- 
mittee, with the authority of the Council, had decided to 
issue a work consisting of a record of the plants, indig- 
enous and introduced, of the County of Cumberland, 
following the lines laid down by the Rey. Dr. Woolls. 
This work, which was very much required, would be edited 
by Mr. Edwin Cheel, which was a guarantee that it would 
be reliable and useful. He also announced that Miss 
Gladys Froggatt (Millie-Millie) was publishing an entomo- 
logical book, entitled “‘The World of Little Lives,’’ being 
nature studies of insect life. The work would contain 160 
pages, illustrated with plates and _text-blocks, and the 
price would be 3/6. ss 
Mr. L. Gallard exhibited live specimens of Scuttelista 
cyanea, parasitic on the olive scale, Lecanium olew, and 
bred from scale occurring on a passion vine at Hastwood 
in January. He stated that this parasite was brought 
from California some 15 years ago, and it was thought 
to have failed, but during the past two years it had been 
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