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GENERAL. 



THE most important event in the past session has been 

 the alteration of the date of the annual meeting 

 ivom May to January. The resolution to this effect was 

 carried at the March meeting, 1895, but the ofl&cers whose 

 duties should have terminated at the May meeting, were 

 requested to continue their services till the January meeting 

 of 1S96. Owing to this change the present part of the Pro- 

 ceedings contains a record of meetings from October 4th, 

 1894, to December 5th, 1895. During this period eleven 

 general meetings took place. 



On October 4th, 1894, Dr. A. B. Prowse read a paper, 

 entitled " Some Ancient British Remains near Long 

 Ashton " (Somerset). The paper was illustrated by maps 

 and photographs. At the same meeting, Mr. Claud Druitt 

 narrated a remarkable capture of a moorhen, Mr. J. F. 

 Perry exhibited the tympanic bone of a whale, and Dr. J. 

 A. Norton some birds' eggs. 



On November, 1st Professor A. P. Chattock gave a 

 lecture on "The Elasticity of Water," illustrating it by 

 means of experiments and blackboard drawings. 



On February 7th Dr. J. A. Norton read a paper, called 

 " Facts and Fancies from the Note-book of a City Naturalist." 

 Mr. H. C. Playne exhibited a marsh warbler's nest found 

 in the neighbourhood, and Mr. H. J. Charbonnier a specimen 

 of Sabine's snipe. 



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