22 Report, Sfc. 



February lOth, 1866. 



The Fifth Meeting of the Society was held at the Rev. B. F. 

 Westcott's house, when the following exhibitions were made : — 



Some Nuggets of Gold. 



Specimens of Auriferous Quartz from Australia. 



Two Stormy Petrels. Some interesting facts about Petrels were men- 

 tioned. The name is derived from " St. Peter," because the 

 Petrels appear to walk on the water. The body of the Fulmar 

 Petrel, with a wick run through it, is used as a " light" at St. 

 Kilda's Island. 



Specimens of the so-called " Sensitive Leaves" of China. It is, however, 

 certain that they are not leaves at all, since under the microscope 

 they do not present the structure of a leaf. They are probably a 

 sort of paper .. .. .. By the President. 



A collection of Shells from the Red Crag, many of them pierced by the 

 whelk. 



Specimen of a Starfish of the Silurian formation. 



By Rev. B. F. Westcott. 



Specimens of fifteen Harrow Mosses . . . . Bt A. J. Evans. 



A Rosary, with relics, and a fragment of the wood of the " True Cross," 

 believed to have once belonged to St. Vincent de Paul. 



Two pieces of wood from Russian ships blown up in the Euxine by 

 their own infernal machines, and pierced by the Teredo Navalis. 



By W. Jektll. 



P. Smith then read a Paper on "Bees;" for which in the 

 present number we have not space. 



At the close of the paper, the Secretary observed that a want of 

 order is among the vices of bees, owing to which the entrance 

 of the hive is often blocked up for hours by the attempts of one 

 party to get in while another is trying to get out. Further, the bee 

 is so avaricious in collecting pollen, that it is often obliged to eject 

 what is superfluous, and thus to waste valuable time. 



February 22nd, 1866. 



The Sixth Meeting of the Society took place on Thursday, the 

 22nd of February, at Mr. Hay ward's House. 



