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At the Ordinary Meeting in tlie same month, 'Mr. "Weir 

 exhibited specimens of the mantis religlosa, Avhich he had 

 captured at Meran, together with the singular egg cases of 

 the insect, found adhering to stones. 



Mr. Heisch exhibited some specimens of tea which had 

 been sunk in the Thames, afterwards redried and fraudulently 

 thrown upon the market ; the odour of the tea was partly 

 retained, but the theine had been removed. 



In xlovember Mr. Standring exhibited specimens of the 

 phylloxera vastabrix, from Portugal. 



Mr. "Wilfred Airy read a most interesting paper on the 

 Shetland Islands, which he had visited during the summer. 



The December meeting, owing to the severity of the 

 weather and the heavy fall of snow, was attended by so few 

 Members that nothing of importance took place. 



The additions to the library have not been very extensive, 

 but the following books have been purchased : — 



Bukeley's Outlines of British Fungolog)'. 

 Lowe's British and Foreign Ferns. 8 vols. 

 Bowerbank's British Spongiadoe. Vol. 3. 

 Monograph of British Annelids. Part '2. 

 Popular Science Review, 1874. 

 Quarterly Journal of Science, 1874. 

 Quarter!}' Microscopical Journal, 1874: — 

 Presented by the Societies: — The proceedings of the Man- 

 chester Literary and Scientific Society, of the Bi'istol JN^atural 

 History Society, and the Eastbourne Natural History Society. 

 Also, by the Author, a pamphlet on the Nervous System of 

 Actinia, by Professor Martin Duncan. 



