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buttons on some of tlie coats may have been stamped out of his 

 hoofs. Enough, however, has, I think, been said of the useful 

 properties of the dead horse to induce us to be grateful to him 

 for his many good qualities, and to treat him with kindness while 

 alive. 



Another lesson we may also derive from what has been said, i.e., 

 not to discard and throw away anything as waste till we have 

 failed to turn it to some account ; and even if we fail to do so, it 

 may still have a hundred useful purposes in it, which further 

 research may one day turn to good account. 



Mr Atkinson was received with much applause, which was often 

 repeated throughout his paper. The President and Gibbons spoke 

 on the paper. The President proposed a vote of thanks to Mr 

 Atkinson, seconded by G. Dakyns, and carried unanimously. 



At a subsequent Committee meeting A. George was elected a 

 member of the Society. 



MEETING, November 7, 1872. 

 The President in the Chair. 



The fourth meeting for the term was held on Thursday, 

 November 7. Thirty members were present. 



Donations announced : — Tertiary Fossils from Lyme Kegis, also 

 from Bognor Eock, Swanage, Chapman's Pool, near St Albans, 

 Barton Shells (in all about 100 specimens), by A. Leach, O.C; 

 Cornish Minerals (43 specimens, comprising Copper and Tin Ores, 

 Quartz, Fluorspar, Wolfram, Bismuth, Oxide of Uranium and 

 Cobalt Ores, &c.), by Cams- Wilson ; Shells from the Carboni- 

 ferous Limestones, found and presented by J. G. Grenfell, Esq.; 

 he also presented a Fossil (undescribed), found by himself in the 

 Millstone Grit, and strongly resembling Nereites Cambrensis 

 (Sedgwick). 



J. A. Gibbons read a paper on the ' Strasburg Cathedral,' 

 exhibiting some prints and photographs of the Cathedral, astro- 

 nomical clock, &c. The President and W. Paul, O.C, spoke at 

 some length. A vote of thanks to Gibbons was proposed by the 

 President, and was carried unanimously. 



