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more numerous than in past ages. The fossil forms in the 

 Chalk were covered with four-sided plates, but now their plates 

 are five-sided. Their spines were attached so early as the 

 Chalk period by ball-and-socket joints, thus anticipating this 

 mechanical appliance of the present day. Their wide distribu- 

 tion was then pointed out, and their great range in depth, from 

 the surface to two thousand fathoms. In concluding his lecture 

 Mr. Saunders said that by the study of recent forms we could 

 interpret the events of the past, and in so doing we should not 

 err, for the more closely we inspect the more fully do we find 

 that there is a unity of design passing through the whole of the 

 series of the creatures which lived in the past ; and not only so 

 but we must feel that the same creative energy was exercised 

 in all ages. 



Mr. Vernon P. Kitchin at a later period gave an illustration, 

 by the aid of a collection of specimens, of the apparent develop- 

 ment of the bronze celt. 



During the evening the collections in the Museum were 

 examined with much interest, and refreshments were served. 



254th Ordinary Meeting, 4th December, 190(3, at Watford. 



John Hopkinson, F.L.S., F.G.S., F.E.Met.Soc, Assoc. 

 Inst.C.E., in the Chair. 



Mr. W. Percival Westell, F.K.H.S., was elected a Member 

 of the Society. 



Mr. Gregory Macalister Mathews, F.L.S., F.Z.S., M.B.O.U., 

 The Movmt, Langley Road, Watford ; and Mr. Charles Dudley 

 Nuttall, M.E.C.S., L.R.C.P., 13, London Road, St. Albans, were 

 proposed for membership. 



It was announced that the Barnet Natural History Society 

 and Field Club had become afiiliated to the Society. 



The following lecture was delivered : — 



" Nature Study." By Wilfred Mark Webb, F.L.S., Hon. Sec. 

 Selborne Society. 



The lecture was illustrated by lantern-slides. 



255th Ordinary Meeting, 16th January, 1907, at St. Albans. 



John Morison, M.D., D.P.H., M.R.C.S., F.G.S., President, 

 in the Chair. 



Mr. G. M. Mathews, F.L.S., and Mr. C. D. Nuttall, M.R.C.S., 

 were elected Members of the Society. 



Mr. Charles Groddard, Eastwood, Arkley, Barnet, was proposed 

 for membership. 



