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kopt. If it bo posaiblo to hatch an egg after a lapse of fivo months, vrhy 

 not after five years ?" 



Conversation ensued in which the President, the Secretary, Mr. 

 Abbott, Mr. All port, Sir. Stephen? and others took part. 



Mr. Justin Browne proposed the usual vote of thanks to the authors 

 of the papers just read, and to the donors of presentations. He observed 

 that (although it did not apply to the present meeting) papers might 

 occasionally be brought forward of no, particular interest to any present, 

 yet these very papers might be of great interest to many readers at a 

 distance. They composed the bulk of the Society's Transactions, and 

 these were of great value as serving to keep up friendly relations and 

 exchanges throughout the world with kindred societies, which otherwise 

 might have little prospect of obtaining that knowledge of our Natural 

 History, &c., which was of peculiar interest to them. The vote having 

 been unanimously agreed to, the meeting separated. 



