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There has been no falling otf in the attendance at the 

 meetings, at which many interesting objects have been 

 exhibited. , 



Mr. E. Purser read at the January Meeting a paper on 

 Coprolites, in which he pointed out the distinction between 

 true coprolites and the coprolites of commerce. 



Mr. C. H. Jordan exhibited some sessile barnacles of very 

 large size, taken from the bottom of an iron ship at Madras. 



In February the usual business of the Annual Meeting 

 was transacted, and the retiring President, Mr. J. Jenner 

 AVeir, delivered an address, which has been printed and 

 distributed. 



The meeting in March, when Mr. Heisch took the chair, 

 was chiefly devoted to the exhibition of microscopes ; many 

 objects were shown, Mr. Wire exhibiting pleurusigma 

 angulatum, with a new immersion lens of great power, by 

 Gunlach, which defined very distinctly the fine markings of 

 that diatom. 



Mr. Graham shewed some very neatly prepared mountings 

 of diptera on mica, so arranged that the upper and under 

 side of the insects could be easily examined. 



In April the President read a valuable and instructive 

 paper on the use of gas for photographic and domestic 

 purposes. 



In May Mr. Weir made some remarks on the backward- 

 ness of the vegetation at Hailsham, the oaks at Blackheath 

 being in full leaf, and in the former locality but just bursting 

 their buds ; he also exhibited a series of agi'otera nemoralis, 

 from Abbot's Wood, near Hailsham, and stated that he had 

 found the woodcock breeding near Petersfield, the nest 

 containing the usual number of four eggs. 



In June the Members of the Society dined together at 

 Gravesend, when an interesting discussion took place upon 

 the true nature of the whitebait. 



The usual field meeting was held at Greenhithe in October, 

 when, under the guidance of the President, the hyoscyamus 

 niger was found growing wild ; this plant had not been seen 

 in the district for twenty j-^ears or upwards. 



