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Mean Height op Baeometee Readings (not corrected). 



E. M. Johnston. 



The President exhibited a collection of Fossils dissolved out of lime- 

 stone from the well-known Bryozoa beds of the lower limestone shales, 



J. Allen (Treasurer), then read a paper on " Blood." 



The Officers for next term were then elected as follows : — J. Allen 

 was elected Treasurer, and Eev. J. Greene, J. A. Gibbons, J. Duncuft, 

 and R. M. Johnston were elected for the Committee. 



Before closing the meeting, the President, in the name of the 

 Society, congratulated R. B. Don on obtaining the i5r{|!;kenbury 

 Scholarship at Balliol College, Oxford. R. B. Don thanked the 

 Society, and expressed his regret at leaving it. 



FIRST TERM, 1873. 



MEETING, February 5th, 1873. 

 The President in the Chair. 



The first meeting of the term was held in the Physics Room, Sixty 

 members and visitors were present. 



The following donations were announced : — Fossils from G. Spencer 

 Percival, Esq., C. H. Firth, and the President ; Cornish Minerals 

 from Carus-Wilson. 



The President announced that Mr. Barrington-Ward's Medal had 

 been gained by T. R. Montgomery, and that Mr. VV. Stoddart had 

 kindly promised a Lecture on "British Spiders." 



Mr. W. Lant Carpenter (B.A,, B. Sc, F.C.S.,) proposed by the 

 President, and seconded by J. Allen, was elected an Honorary 

 Member. 



