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audience, I feel very grateful to you for obliging me to live over 

 again in recollection the sights and impressions of those bright, 

 unclouded days. Do not be content with my description, but go 

 as soon as you are well past your last examination, if you have 

 nothing better still to do, and try for yourselves what tent life is 

 like in the desert of Sinai. You will find that you never breathed 

 so freely before, and that to have been face to face day by day with 

 the great teacher Nature, where there is neither din nor interrup- 

 tion, but where you have but to look and listen to descry her 

 finger and to hear her voice, will be to you a life-long lesson of 

 love and reverence, and a fund of quiet happiness that you will 

 not easily exhaust. 



Saturday, November ^6th, 1867. 



The Thirty-sixth Meeting of the Society was held at Mr. Ruault's 

 House. 



Pennefather and Woodward were elected members. 



The exhibitions were : — 



A Sea-Horse (Hippocampus) from Naples . . . . By Eteraed. 



Chinese Padlock ; New Zealand Idol ; large and small New Zealand 



Fish Hooks . . . . . . . . . . By Meek. 



A very interesting Paper on British Land and Freshwater 

 Molluscs was read by Mr. Soden Smith (who has become an 

 honorary member of the Society), illustrated by a most varied 

 collection of Shells. 



Thursday, November 2Sth, 1867. 



The Thirty-seventh Meeting was held at Mr. B. Smith's House. 

 Apcar, maj. was elected a member. 



