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of specimens brought by various members of the Society. 

 Mr. G. C. Griffiths, F.E.S., exhibited a collection of 

 Lepidoptera, illustrating mimicry among that order ; Mr. 

 C. K. Rudge, a number of the boring Mollusca ; Miss B. 

 Jecks, a collection of British Birds' Eggs ; Mr. H. Francis, 

 a case of British Wild Bees ; Mr. Jecks, three specimens of 

 conglomerate (Sussex granite), vertebra and part of femur 

 of Iguanodon from Wealden Clay, Volcanic Ash from the 

 coast of Argyllshire, Glacial Drift (Lower Silurian) from 

 North Wales, part of the Carapace of South African Land 

 Tortoise, Carapace of the Spider Crab — Maia Squinado — 

 from the Isle of Wight, teeth and part of jaw of Otter and 

 a Crab from the Norwich Crag, teeth and part of jaw of fish 

 from the Norfolk Chalk, and Ammonite from the Lias. Mr. 

 H. Charbonnier showed a Bittern from Tiverton, an Albino 

 Lark from Salisbury, a Hawfinch from Stoke Bishop, and a 

 small collection of East Indian Crustacea. The majority 

 of the exhibitors gave short discourses upon the several 

 objects they had brought. 



At the meeting on February 6th, Mr, G. Munro Smith 

 read and illustrated a paper on " Muscle," and Mr. H. Percy 

 Leonard gave the result of his " Observations on a Pair of 

 Blackbirds," which had nested in the garden of his house, 

 and which awoke additional interest from the fact of the 

 male being a piebald bird. The paper is printed in the 

 " Proceedings." 



On March 6th, Dr. D. S. Davies gave an address on 

 " Modern Methods of Disease Prevention." 



The meeting on March 18th was a special one, and sum- 

 moned for the purpose of hearing Mr. James McMurtrie, 

 F.G.S., of Radstock, who had kindly consentsd to give a 

 paper " On a Comparison of the Somersetshire Coal-field with 

 the Coal Measures of Belgium and the North of France." 



