ii Proceedings. ^October isth, igor. 



The President referred to the loss sustained by the Society 

 through the death of Professor P. G. Tait, one of its honorary 

 members since 1868, and by the resignation of the office of 

 honorary secretary by Professor A. W. Fkix, on his acceptance 

 of the Chair of Political Economy in the McGill University, 

 Montreal. 



Mr. W. E. HoYLE exhibited two ethnological specimens 

 from Demerara, formerly in the possession of the Manchester 

 Natural History Society under the name of " fish-arrows." They 

 are about 4ft. long, slender, and apparently made from the wall 

 of some hollow reed, with nodes at regular intervals. At one 

 end is a barbed point of wrought iron, the other end being 

 stained a dark brown for about four inches. The use of these 

 weapons is somewhat difficult to determine ; they are too thin 

 and flexible either to shoot from a bow or to throw with true aim. 

 Instruments of a similar kind, however, are said to have been 

 used for catching fish by baiting the barbed end and sticKmg 

 the other end into the bed of the stream among the reeds. 



The President communicated a paper on ** The Range 

 of Diotis candidissima Desf. , in England and Wales, 

 and in Ireland," by Mr. Cecil P. Hurst. 



General Meeting, October 15th, 1901. 

 Charles Bailey, F.L.S., President, in the Chair. 



Mr. J. H. Reynolds, Principal of the Municipal School of 

 Technology, Manchester, was elected an ordinary member of the 

 Society. 



