The Reading Naturalist No. 15 Published by the Reading and. District Natural History Society 1963 Price to Non-members Two Shillings and Sixpence +1 Ms i a THE READING NATURALIST 3, No.15 for the Year 1961-62 a al The Journel of The Reading and District Natural History Socicty President Bee Watson, Delews Ph.Ds FeLeS. Hon.Secretarys Editors Enid M. Nelmes, 27, Westbourne Avmue, Mrs. A. Fishlock, Acton, We36 Clarence Lodge, 943 London Road, Reading Editorial Sub—Comnittee The Editor, B.R. Baker, Miss L.—. Cobb, A. Price, Mrs. A.M.Simnonds, Miss S.Y. Townend Honorary Recorders Miss K.I. Butler, 18 Morgan Road, Reading Botany: Entonologys B.R. Baker Hsqe, 71\ Berkeley Aveme, Reading Geology: Professor H.L. Hawkins, F.R.S., 63 Tilehurst Road, Reading. 1963 = ae CONTA ATS National Nature Week Meetings and Excursions 1961-1962 Berkshire, Buckinghamshire end Oxfordshire Neturelists! Trust Chiltem Research Committee Weather Date for 1962 Presidential Address: The Natural History of Mosquitoes The Annual Reports of the Honorary Recorders: Entonology Botany Fungi at Kingwood Common (Supplementary List) Generel Observations: Well Shrimps Pseudoscorpiones near Henley Vibrissae in the Mustelidae Tree-rafted Chalk Fragments from the London Clay Notes on Microlepidoptera of the Reading Area,III. Hints to Collectors Spiders of a Reading Garden Wild Flowers in Town / Survey of Fungi at "Little Hungerford" and "South Lake", Harley, 1960-61 List of Members A. He He E. Moon F, Newnan R. Baker I. Butler Price Carter Carter SH. Hager, R. Goldring and H. Dolton H. Carter A ett ° Simonds Tp ue C. Henken Page 46 ma ae EDITORTAL We are very pleased this year to welcome 2 contribution from the geologists anong us, who, in the past, have not often been represented in the Reading "Naturalist", and hope that this paper, from a new generation, will be followed by many more. The absence of an Ornithological Report will be a disappointment to many, but the Honorary Recorder informs us that he receives so few records fron members that since, under the reciprocal arrangement with the Reading Ornitho- logical Club, the report of that Society is available to our members at a reduced rate, it seems hardly worth while making a separate report for the "Naturalist". We offer our grateful thanks to all our contributors, to the Director of the Museum and Art Gallery, lr. T. L. Gwatkin, for granting production facilities, md to all who have helped with the work of production, ae se We have pleasure in recording that the prize offered by Major Maxwell knight for a piece of original field work by a Junior Member of a Society affiliated to the South-Easterm Union of Scientific Societies (a week's study at a Field Centre) has been won by our Member, John Hodgson, He submitted an account of the heath- land flora of Reading, and this was published in the South—Nastern Naturalist and Antiquary for 1962,