44 Transactions of the 



MEETING, October 30th, 1873. 

 The PRESiDJiNT in the Cliair. 



The second meeting of the term was held in the Physical Lecture 

 Eooni. There were Forty-three members and visitors present. 



Donations acknowledged :— Quarterly Journal of Science, and 

 several Nos. of Geological Magazines, from F. Tuckett, Esq.; Cornish 

 Minerals, from G. V. Cox. 



The President announced that the Committee had elected Strachan, 

 Smith, and Curry, members of the Society. 



G. Dakyns then read a paper on Norway. 



The Pi-esident and Mr. Wollaston spoke on the paper. 



The Treasurer, R. M. Johnston, read the accounts of the Society 

 for the last term, which showed a balance of £16 : 14 : 0. 



MEETING, November 6th, 1873. 

 The Vice-President in the Chair. 

 The third meeting of the term was held in the Physical Lecture 

 Room. There were only Twenty members present. 



On account of the small number of members present, Moser proposed, 

 and Dakyns seconded, that the meeting be adjourned. The meeting 

 was accordingly adjourned till that day week. 



MEETING, November 13th, 1874. 

 The Vice- President in the Chair. 



The fourth meeting of the term was held in the Physical Lecture 

 Room. There were Thirty-seven members present. 



Mr. Wollaston proposed that the Secretary should, for the time, 

 take the Chair. 



The Secretary then called upon Mr. "Wollaston for his paper on 



METAMORPHOSIS OF LEAVES IN PLANTS. 



We cannot go into the smallest garden, or take a walk in the 

 country with our eyes open, without being struck with the wonderful 

 variety in the flowers around us. If it is in the spring, we see the 

 hedges white with hawthorn and fringed with the catkins of the 

 hazel, while at our feet we find i^rimroses, hyacinths, anemones, and 

 the queer flowers of the cuckoo-pint or arum, and the fields 

 are golden with buttercups or white with daisies ; and the orchards 

 are glorious in the red and white blossoms which are the promise of 

 autumn. 



Or, in the autumn, we see the soft juicy apple, the prickly 

 chestnut, the scaly filbert, and the acorn so wonderfully fitted into 

 its cup. Who can help saying, " Thou hast made me glad through 

 Thy works ! " 



But whence and wherefore all this endless variety? Is it not possible 

 that, running throuL,h the whole apparently tangled skein, there may 



