EAST KENT NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY. 



REPORT OP THE COMMITTEE FOR 1878. 



Consequent upon the protracted illness and confinement to the 

 house of the President, Hon. Secretary, and Hon. Assistant 

 Secretary, the scientific work of the past year was confined to the 

 ordinary monthly meetings of the members, at which papers on 

 various interesting subjects were read and objects exhibited 

 under the microscopes. As the more important of these papers 

 will be printed in extenso with this Report, it is unnecessary 

 to notice further than enumerate them, and the pages in which 

 they are to be found in the Report, as follows : — 



1 — Paper by Mr. W. H. Hammond, " On Spheraphides ;" 

 also, a register of the Rainfall at Milton Chapel for 1877, 

 and the greatest Heat registered in the shade, for the same 

 year (pp. 20.) 



2 — Paper by Professor Gulliver, " On the Minute Anatomy of 

 Plants," illustrated by drawings of Raphidea and other 

 microscopic plant crystals (pp. 21). 



3 — Paper by Mr. W. H. Hammond, " On the method of pre- 

 paring vegetable tissues, with the view of examining the 

 crystals in different plants more perfectly under the micros- 

 cope" (pp. 2 4). 



4 — Remarks "On a specimen of the large saw-fly (Ten- 

 thredo)," by Mr. FuUagar (pp. 27). 



5 — Observations by Captain McDakin "On some foliated 

 crystals of Heavy Spar or Siilphate of Barytes, from the 

 interior of a septaria found in the London clay of the Isle 

 of Sheppy" (pp. 28). 



Also, in continuation of the same subject, remarks by the 

 same member " On a Septaria from the Weald clay of the 

 Isle of Wight " (pp. 29). 



6 — Paper "On Lythrum Salicaria, or Purple Loose Strife, 

 explanatory of tlie three forms of the same flower found 

 growing on the side of a dike in the neighbourhood of 

 Canterburj', with extracts from Darwiu's book, entitled 

 'Form* of Flowers,' " by Colonel Horsley, R.E. (pp. 29), 



