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more particularly: i in their symmetry of form, delicacy of structure, 
and the elegance of the arrangement of the innumerable plates and 
spines which are articulated to form the skeleton. 
In demonstration of these points, specimens of the following _ 
species were exhibited, and the details of structure were shewn by 
sections and by microscrupical preparations : — 
CrivomEa— 
Comatula (Autedan) rosaceus. 
OpuIvROmMEA— 
Ophiura lacertosa 
O. albida 
Amphiura elegans 
A. brachiata 
Ophiocoma rosula 
O. granulata 
O. Goodsiri. 
ASTEROIDEA— 
Uraster (Asterias) rubens 
U. glacialis 
Solaster papposus 
Cribrella sanguinolenta 
Astropecten irregularis 
Asterina gibbosa 
Palmipes placenta 
Porania pulvilius. 
XV.—Lron in Clay Nodules—sy Carr. McDaxry. 
JUNE 2, 1885. 
Capt. McDakin exhibited specimens of Clay-ironstones from 
Crowborough, in the Weald of Sussex, and illustrated by diagrams — 
the curious segregation of Iron from the interior to the surface of 
the réctangular and flattened nodules. 
XVI.—Jet in the Wealden Strata—sy Mrs. Cour. 
Mrs. Cole produced some pieces of Jet, taken 30 years since 
from a depth of 80 ft., near Battle Abbey. Reference was made _ 
at the same time to the discovery of a large block of similar composi- a 
tion in the chalk at Shepherd’s Well Tunnel, near Dover, when — 
the L. C. & D. Railway was being constructed. The block was 
preserved in the Canterbury Museum throug the action of some 
Members of the Society. an 
XVII.— Habits of the Honey Bee—sy Cou. C. J. Cox. 
JuLY 7 1885. 
