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Saturday, June 6th, 1868. 



The forty-fifth Meeting of the Society was held at Mr. Farrar's 

 House. 



The exhibitions were : 



Implements of various periods, from the Swiss Lake-dwellings. 



By Evans. 



Dunn then read a paper on Tea. 



Thursday, June 18<7«, 1868. 



The Society held its Forty-sixth Meeting at the President's 

 House. 



A vote of thanks was passed to C. J. Leaf, Esq., who had 

 kindly presented a microscope, and Guillemin's book on " The 

 Heavens" as the first and second prizes for essays written by 

 members of the Society. 



The President informed the Society that Mr. A. Ellis had 

 presented them his " Notes on Birds." 



The exhibitions were : 

 An apparatus for producing Smoke-rings , . Bx Mb. Gbiffiih. 



Elgood then read a paper on 



THE GULF STEEAM. 



Reviewing the various explanations of its origin — 

 He showed that the volume of water emptied by the Mississippi 

 into the Gulf of Mexico bears no comparison to that which escapes 

 from it, and, consequently, we must look elsewhere for its source. 

 The theory that the stream is the escaping of the waters forced 

 into the Caribbean Sea by the trade winds was also rejected j 



