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upon the Peyer's patches o£ the Leporines, and pointed to 

 the necessity for examination of the viscera. Mr. Barrett 

 Hamilton, who was present as a visitor, was inclined to regard 

 the supposed hybrid as an example of the ordinary Brown Hare 

 turning white in winter, hitherto unnoticed in this country. 



Mr. Thomas Christy inquired what position the so-called 

 Belgian Hare or Leporine occupied in relation to the question of 

 hybridity ; and was answered that the popular notion of that 

 animal being a hybrid between Hare and Rabbit was fallacious, 

 since it was nothing more than an overgrown tame Habbit 

 coloured like a Hare. 



Mr. B. B. "Woodward gave a demonstration, illustrated with 

 lantern-slides, of M. F. Bernard's researches iuto the development 

 of the hinge of bivalve shells. 



The following papers were read : — 



1. " Further Observations on Assimilatory Inhibition." By 

 Dr. A. J. Ewart. (Communicated by li. J. Harvey Gibson, 

 r.L.S.) 



2. " On the Development of the Ovule of Cliristisoniar By 

 "W. C. "Worsdell. (Communicated by Prof. J. B. Farmer, 

 F.L.S.) 



3. " On the Chalcididse of the Island of Grrenada, West 

 Indies." By Dr. L. O. Howard. (Communicated by F. D. 

 Godman, F.E.S., F.L.S.) 



January 21st, 1897. 



Mr. C. B. Claeke, Vice-President, in the Chair. 



The Minutes of the last Meeting were read and confirmed. 



Messrs. Robert Barnes and F. G. Sinclair were admitted 

 Fellows of the Society. 



Dr. John Lowe, F.L.S., exhibited some fossil antlers of Cervus 

 elaphus of unusually large size from Southern Fen, Cambridge. 

 The dimensions given were : — Length along outside curve, 

 R. 42-6 in.; L. 41 in. Circumference above burr, R. 11-6; 

 L. 11. Greatest inside width .37 in., at top 32-6. With these 

 were also exhibited various fragments of implements and weapons 

 which had been discovered in proximity, showing that the animal 

 had lived contemporaneously with man. 



Dr. H. 0. Forbes referred to similar antlers of great size 

 which had been discovered in Lancashire during the cutting of 

 the Manchester Ship Canal, and were preserved in the Liverpool 

 Museum. 



Mr. J. E. Harting showed drawings of large antlers found at 

 Bourne End in 1894 during the construction of the new Viaduct 

 over the Thames, and at Boston, Lincolnshire, in 1895 by a man 



