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Anemones, etc. The meeting was attended by about 20 

 members, and the Club is indebted to the above members for 

 kindly providing material for a very interesting Exhibition. It 

 is to be hoped that in future we may have assistance from a 

 good many more of the members at meetings of this description, 

 when members may bring specimens of interest, or that they 

 want identifying, and the members may be of mutual advantage 

 to one another. 



The second meeting was held on November 18th, when 

 T. H. Nelson, Esq., M.B.O U., of Redcar, delivered an exceed- 

 ingly interesting lecture on the " Migration of Birds " illustrated 

 by means of Lantern Views. The Lecture was attended by 

 about thirty members, in spite of the weather being very 

 unpropitious. We were indebted to the Camera Club for the 

 loan of the lantern at this and the subsequent meeting, at both 

 of which Mr. West kindly manipulated it for us. 



On December 18th, a night of a very wintry character, an 

 interesting paper was given by the Rev. J. Hawell, M.A., F.G.S., 

 one of our Vice-Presidents, entitled " the Collection and Study 

 of Fossils," of which Mr. Hawell exhibited a few specimens 

 as types. This meeting was attended by upwards of 20 

 members. 



The fourth and last meeting, held during the winter season, 

 was on February 3rd, when a lecture was delivered in the 

 Literary and Philosophical Society's Hall, by Mr. F. W. Keeble, 

 M.A., entitled Some Natural History Studies, illustrated by 

 means of Lantern Views. This meeting, being open to friends, 

 was attended by upwards of 100 members and friends, and in 

 point of numbers proved to be the most successful meeting of 

 the winter session. Mr. Keeble described some of the investiga- 

 tions he had recently made into the life history and habits of 

 the shrimp and other marine creatures, illustrating very clearly 

 the thorough nature of his researches. 



The whole of the lectures held during the last Winter Session 

 were given voluntarily, and no expense has been incurred out- 

 side the sending out of notices for these, except for gas for 

 lantern, the lantern being very kindly provided by the Cleveland 

 Camera Club, to whom the thanks of the Club are due. Our 

 thanks are also specially due to Mr. Nelson, Rev. J. Hawell, 

 and Mr. F. W. Keeble (who came over from Newcastle purposely, 

 at his own expense), for tlieir great kindness in giving us papers 

 during the past Winter season, and I trust we may have the 

 pleasure of their assistance again at some future day. 



