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ing as if it had been swept.' It is a stemless or caulescent palm- 

 like plant, the top of which is crowned with from 12 to 20 very long 

 pinnatifid leaves. The plants are diaecious, the males forming higher, 

 more erect, and robust trunks than the females. The fruit consists 

 of a conglomerated head composed of six or seven drupes, and con- 

 taining six to nine seeds, the whole being enclosed in a walled, 

 woody covering, forming altogether a globular head as large as a 

 man's. A single plant sometimes bears at the same time from six to 

 eight of these large heads of fruit, each weighing from 20 to 25 lbs. 

 They are imported into Britain under the name of ' Corozo ' nuts, a 

 name by which the fruits of some species of palm, Attalea, are 

 known in Central America, their uses being chiefly for small articles 

 of turnery." 



Mr. West (Ashtead) exhibited a very beautiful specimen of fossil 

 Madrepore. 



Mr. L. W. Newman exhibited a fine series of very darkly marked 

 specimens of Aijriopis aprilina, from Teesdale. 



Mr. F. W. Frohawk exhibited a bred series of Chrijsopliauus mtiliis 

 bred from ova, the race originating in Holland. He considered it 

 the nearest approach to our now extinct C. dispar. The Austrian 

 race was less like the latter and had less developed spots. He also 

 exhibited a drawing of a very rare form of the Red Grouse {Layopiis 

 scoticiiH) from Derbyshire. It was of an extreme silvery variety, of 

 which only one or two previous examples had been recorded. This 

 species varies extremely, but an albino of this degree was stated to 

 be almost unique. 



Mr. Hy. J. Turner exhibited a long and very varied series of 

 Peronea cristana, including many named forms. Mr. Adkin 

 remarked that although many names had been applied, it appeared 

 to him that the variation fell into a series of more or less well 

 defined groups, and the variation occurring in the groups was not 

 sufficient in most cases to justify the bestowal of further varietal 

 names. 



Mr. Turner also exhibited examples of I'arnossiKs vinfDiosi/iie from 

 various continental localities, showing trivial and local variation. 

 One female specimen showed the " pouch " formed below the 

 abdomen after copulation. 



Mr. Brooks reported that he had heard from Mr. B. S. Williams, 

 who was at Blackpool, that recently the sea there had been extremely 

 phosphorescent. He himself had seen two Martins at St. Margaret's 

 Bay, on November 15th, which he considered was a very late date; 



