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General Meeting, November 4th, 1884. 



Professor W. C. Williamson, LL.D., F.RS., President, 

 in the Chair. 



Mr. BuLKELEY Allen, of West Lynn, Altrincham ; and 

 Mr. Joseph Corbett, of Manchester, Architect, were elected 

 Ordinary Members of the Society. 



Professor O. Reynolds, F.R.S,, read a letter from the 

 Council of the Manchester and Salford Sanitary Association, 

 proposing that a Conference on Health and Education should 

 be held in Manchester, at Easter, 1885, and requesting the 

 Society to nominate one or more of its members to act as 

 its representatives on a Committee to be appointed to or- 

 ganize such a Conference. 



It was resolved that the letter be referred to the Council. 



Ordinary Meeting, November 4th, 1884. 



Professor W. C. Williamson, LL.D., F.RS., President, 

 in the Chair. 



The Peesident, in referring to Mr. Caldwell's recent 

 discovery of the oviparous reproduction of the Duck-billed 

 Platypus of Australia, called attention to the fact that when 

 he undertook the curatorship of the museum of the Man- 

 chester Natural History Society, in Peter Street, in 1835, 

 he found in that museum two very remarkable eggs which 

 had been brought from Australia, and which were labelled 

 " Eggs of the Duck-billed Platypus." Those eggs were in 

 the collection when he resigned his curatorship in 1838, and 

 no reference to their existence can be traced beyond that 

 date. Their size and oblong form made them wholly unlike 

 the eggs of any bird or oviparous reptile known at the above 



Proceedings— Lit. & Phil. Soc— Vol. XXIV.— No. 2.— Session 1884-5. 



