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Mr. George Hickling, M.Sc, read a paper entitled, "The 

 Anatomy of Calamostachys Bin?ieyaiia, Schimper." 

 The paper will be printed in full in the Memoirs. 



Mr. T. A Coward, F.Z.S., communicated and read a paper 

 by Mr. Lionel E. Adams, B.A., entitled "A Hypothesis as 

 to the cause of the Autumnal Epidemic of the 

 Common and the Lesser Shrew." 



The paper is published in full in the Alemoirs. 



Ordinary Meeting, February 22nd, 1910. 



Mr. Francis Jones, M.Sc, F.R.S.E., President, 

 in the Chair. 



The thanks of the members were voted to the donors of the 

 books upon the tables. 



Mr. A. Brothers read the following note on " Halley's 

 Comet as seen in 1835, compared with Donati's in 

 1858." 



The numerous notices of Halley's Comet which have appeared 

 within the last few months have referred mainly to the time 

 when it might be expected to become visible without a telescope. 

 Now that there is the prospect of its being seen within a very 

 few weeks, it is perhaps natural to anticipate a little as to what 

 it will be like. 



During some of its visits to our hemisphere it has been 

 spoken of as a brilliant object, but, as is usually the case in 

 the return visits of comets, the brightness has lessened with each 

 return. Good drawings or sketches of Halley's Comet seem to 

 be rare, I know of only two or three. Sir John Herschel saw it 

 at the Cape of Good Hope, and from his sketches it was not 

 very conspicuous, Struve in 1835 gives a sketch which shows 



