Greeiiiug's Fami, Chailwood, and remarkable from the size it had 

 attaiued during an unusually long and dry season. 



He also exhiljited several very large Barnacles which had recently 

 been taken off the bottom of an iron ship, which, since she was last 

 in dock, had only made two voyages to the Pacific and back, occupying 

 a period of less than two years. The ship's bottom appears to have 

 been covered with these multivalve shells, much impeding her passing 

 through the water, whilst the rapidity of the growth of these shells 

 and their rapid multiplication are well worthy of note. 



He also exhibited and drew the attention of the Meeting to three 

 fine specimens of the Death's Head Moth, which had been taken in 

 this neighbourhood quite recently. He stated that the fine hot 

 summer had caused a considerable number of these moths to arrive 

 at the winged state, and that they had appeared in many parts of the 

 country. 



The President mentioned that recently there had been some very 

 fine effects of diverging rays in the west, about the time of sunset. 

 One evening, about ten minutes after the sun had set, and the sky 

 was free from clouds, these rays were very strong and remarkable, 

 radiating from about where the sun would be beneath the horizon, 

 and spreading to nearly over the head of the spectator : he attributes 

 these rays to the shadows of distant hills on a sky full of humidity. 



The President then called the attention of the Meeting to the fact 

 that roots of trees often anastomise in a very remarkable and com- 

 plicated way, while the branches very seldom are known to do so. 

 Some excellent examples of these roots anastomising had been noticed 

 in the sandy lanes near Leith Hill, during a recent excursion of the 

 Club to that interesting locality. Further information on this subject 

 would be very desirable, particularly as to the cause of this inai'ching 

 of the roots one on another, and the trees which most frequently have 

 the process carried out among their roots. 



The Secretary exhibited specimens of Choanites Konigii from the 

 chalk flints of the Isle of Wight. The Choanite is an extinct form 

 of animal life, and in the scale of creation occupied a position between 

 Bryozoa and Echinodermata. Its outer form was not unlike that of 

 a Sea Anemone, but it possessed organs of a higher order. 



