Proceedings. 77 



General Meeting, December 1st, 1891. 



James Bottomley, D.Sc, B.A., F.C.S., Vice-President, 

 in the Chair. 



Mr. John Edward King, M.A., High Master, Man- 

 chester Grammar School, was elected an ordinary member. 



Ordinary Meeting, December 1st, 1891. 



James Bottomley, D.Sc., B.A., F.C.S., Vice-President, 

 in the Chair. 



The thanks of the members were voted to the donors of 

 the books upon the table. 



Mr. Alex. Hodgkinson, M.B., B.Sc, gave an account 

 of some curious cores of sand, observed protruding from 

 the ends of burrows in the perpendicular sides of a sand- 

 pit, the burrows having been made by moles from the 

 surface of the land. 



Mr. W. E. Hoyle, M.A., exhibited a specimen of the 

 giant earth-worm, of Gippsland, Megascolides austmlis, and 

 read the following note on the subject : — 



" The specimen now exhibited was presented to the 

 Manchester Museum by Professor Baldwin Spencer, of the 

 University of Melbourne, formerly a student in the Owens 

 College, who has written an elaborate memoir on its anatomy. 

 The worm lives principally in the sloping sides of creeks, 

 but is sometimes found among fallen logs or turned up by 

 the plough. The largest living one hitherto measured had 



