8 The Structure of Leaves, 



but decipher here and there a line or two, and yet found them more 

 interesting than all the books, save one, which were ever written 

 upon earth." 



Tliursday, November SOt?i. 



The Second Meeting of the Society was held at the House of the 

 Rev. F. W. Farrar. 



J. Ponsonby and A. W. Welch were elected members of the 

 Society. 



The exhibitions were : — 



A Fossil Jaw, vertebrae, and other fragments of the Ictbyosaurus Platyodon. 



A Death's Head Moth (Acherontia Atropos). 



A Humming Bii'd Moth (Macroglossa Stellatarum). 



A Leaf of the Gromwell (Lethospermum ofl&cinale) under a binocular 

 microscope . . . . . . . . By the President. 



A Ptarmigan's Egg, taken in Switzerland. 



Some minerals. . . . . . . By R. B. Smith, Esq. 



A Fragment of Egyptian Pottery and an Egyptian God, from Sir G. 

 Wilkinson's collection. Sir G. Wilkinson proved by this piece of 

 pottery that the Greek "a" was written from left to right, and 

 not as is generally taught now, from right to left. 



By T. G. Roopeb. 



A Riband Agate and Crystals of Amethyst . . . . By P. Smith. 



The Society passed a vote of thanks to the Rev. Dr. Butler for 

 the handsome present of a minute book. 



The following Paper was then read by T. G. Rooper on 



THE STRUCTURE OF LEAVES. 



Every study has its alphabet, which must be known before any 

 further knowledge can be obtained. Now although this is usually 

 voted dry and uninteresting, still it is absolutely indispensable ; 

 therefore I will, in as few words as possible, run through all the 

 "Alphabet" that is necessary to the study of leaves. 



