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a deteriorating effect. In those tribes, he had seen men six 

 feet high, as fine as any men he had seen in any other tribe, 

 but the women were inferior. 



Mr. Sydney Gibbons, F.C.S., read a paper on " The Illu- 

 mination of Public Clocks." 



This was followed by a long discussion, in which Messrs. 

 Ellery, M'Lean, Wiiite, Coane, and Marks took part. 



On the motion of Mr. Archer, it was resolved that the two 

 biological papers on the notice paper be taken as read, viz. : 



(«) " On the Occurrence of a Partially Double Chick 

 Embryo," by Mr. A. H. S. Lucas. 



(h) " On the Formation of Twins in the Hen's Egg," by 

 Professor W. Baldwin Spencer. 



