The President drew the attention of the Meeting to the Meteorology 

 of the past month at Reigate, particularly alluding to the quantity of 

 rain which had fallen, amounting to 3| inches, making a total 

 for the current year of 32J inches, very much exceeding the 

 average. 



The President brought for exhibition a collection of variegated 

 plants of different kinds, showing the various ways in which the 

 leaves of plants were variegated, some naturally so, and some the 

 result of sport improved upon by cultivators, and then made almost 

 permanent under certain conditions of growth. He explained the 

 various kinds of variegations usually met with on the leaves of plants, 

 and how many of them had originated, drawing attention to the fact 

 that most of the white variegations commenced in an unhealthy state 

 of the plant. He then brought before the Meeting some extraordinary 

 facts connected with the larva of two-winged or dipterous insects. 

 He stated that it had been proved by naturalists in Prussia and 

 Germany that some Diptera had viviparous larva ; that is, that the 

 larva had the power of producing other larva like themselves through 

 several stages, and that the last formed larva went into the state of 

 chrysalis and then produced the perfect insect. This viviparous 

 nature of dipterous larvae is quite a new fact in Entomology. The insect 

 in question producing these remarkable larvae is new to Science, and 

 has been called Miaster metreleas. 



The President alluded to a large specimen of the Finner Whale 

 [Fhyseter Tursio) which had recently been cast on shore near Pevensey : 

 it measured 70 feet in length, with the jaws about 16 or 18 feet 

 long. 



He also called the attention of the Meeting to a very remarkable 

 new sea animal, one of the Ascidian group, having a fleshy valve 

 covering the parts of the mouth and other orifices of the body, some- 

 thing similar to the lid of a tankard, which lid or valve opened and 

 shut at the pleasure of the animal. This new form has been called 

 Cheoreuleus callensis. He also pointed out some peculiarities in a 

 small shell called Plectostoma, which he exhibited, and which had a 

 long projecting mouth shaped like a trumpet. 



