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of the means originally secured from the neighbouring spring in Moorend Grove, 

 and which it has been provided, in the deed of purchase, shall be conducted 

 through the gardens." 



At the conclusion of the Report an abstract of the Society's receipts and dis- 

 bursements during the year was submitted to the meeting. By this it appeared, 

 that the former amounted to £2,115, and the latter to £2,054 10s. 8d., includ- 

 ing a payment of five hundred pounds on account of the purchase money for the 

 land. 



The reading of these official papers being over, Dr. Baron, in a brief congra- 

 tulatory speech, in which he also alluded to the importance of carrying out the 

 designs of the society more extensively than appeared yet to have been done, and 

 especially in respect to the formation of a museum, moved the first resolution 

 — " That the Report and Financial Statement should be adopted and printed," 

 which, having been seconded by the Rev. C. B. Trye, was carried nem. con. 



The second resolution, which was one of thanks to the Committee of Manage- 

 ment for their valuable and gratuitous services, was moved by Dr. Boisragon, 

 and seconded by Dr. Cannon, both of whom bore testimony to the zeal and 

 abilities which the gentlemen constituting the Sub-Committee of Management 

 evinced in carrying out the designs of the Society. The names of the five re- 

 tiring members of the Committee were then announced by the Secretary, and the 

 meeting proceeded to elect others to fill their place, when Dr. Cannon, Mr. 

 Skillicorne, Mr. C. Baker of Painswick, Mr. Billings, and Mr. Bubb were 

 proposed, and elected without opposition. The appointment of auditors and 

 other routine business next followed, and the proceedings of the day closed with 

 a vote of thanks to the Chairman, who acknowledged it in a short address, at the 

 close of which the meeting separated. 



ORNITHOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



Dec. 1. — Mr. Bartlett exhibited two specimens of Gulls he had lately ob- 

 tained in the London market, one a male of the year, corresponding to Larus 

 glaucus, Auct., the other a female of the preceding year, intermediate in size 

 between L. glaucus and L. Islandicus, but which he conceived to be identical 

 with the first, although a considerable difference existed in the structure of the 

 breast-bone, which, in the larger and younger bird, would in the course of a few 

 weeks have become only singly emarginated at its posterior edge, whereas the 

 other retained two distinct emarginations, as ordinarily observed in this genus. 

 He was unwilling, till he had examined more specimens, to come to any decision 

 respecting the special identity of his two birds, but, judging from the specimens 

 he had examined in the British Museum and Zoological Society's Museum, he 

 was very much inclined to think that the European L. Islandicus, Auct., was 



