32 EAST KENT NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY. 



arranged a bouquet of wild flowers so as to prove how effectively 

 they may be used for graceful decoration. 



September l^th, 1872. — Blood-disks of Gadidce. — The meeting 

 was chiefly occupied in the examination of plants lately collected 

 near Canterbury by Mrs. Dean ; in microscopic demonstrations of 

 the wings of Ephemerinae and diurnal Lepidoptera by Colonel 

 Horsley and Mr. FuUagar ; and in the determination of some species 

 of fishes collected a few days since at Hastings by Mr. George 

 Grulliver. Of the fishes, it was shown that the red blood -corpuscles 

 of the little Motella are as large as those of other and big members 

 of the Gadidfe ; and thus that the relation of size between the 

 species and its blood-disks, long since proved by the Hon. Sec. in 

 mammals and birds, is not maintained in fishes, nor is it in reptiles ; 

 and the facts are of much physiological significance. 



