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ages. Mr. Boyle related that lie had successfully grown the 

 Victoria reyia out of doors through the winter at Ambleside, 

 in a small piece of water which he kept artiiicially heated to 

 a temperature of about 65° Fahr., at only trifling expense. 



Evening Meeting. — January 13th, 1882. 



The President exhibited two sj)ecimen3 of rock, given to 

 him by Mr. Shaw, Secretary of the South Eastern Eailway 

 Company, which had been taken from the excavations for 

 the Channel Tunnel, Dover, as an illustration of the strata 

 through which the borings are being carried. 



Mr. J. B. Crosfield read a paper, entitled ' Ornithology in 

 Wray Park,' as follows : — 



I propose in the following paper to give a brief account 

 of the birds observed at various times in the grounds of ' The 

 Dingle," in the Wray Park district, Eeigate ; not that the spe- 

 cies noticed in that comparatively small area are in any 

 respect different from those to be met with in the surrounding 

 neighbourhood, nor yet because they include any of special 

 rarity ; but simply because I think such an account will serve 

 to illustrate how many kinds we may reasonably look for 

 within a limited area in this neighbourhood when the place 

 is favourable for them ; and also because it may be in some 

 respects advantageous to record more full particulars re- 

 specting a small area rather than less complete ones relating 

 to a larger extent of country. The area to which the 

 following observations refer consists of about fourteen acres, 

 and includes nearly equal extents of wood and field, the 

 remainder consisting of garden. The soil of the greater 

 portion is the Lower Greensand, but a small part towards 

 the north-east is on the Gault. The wood contains some 

 trees of good size, and consists chiefly of Beech, Ash, Oak, 

 Elm, Spruce and Scotch Fir, tolerably well distributed. The 

 only water is a small artificial pond in the garden, with the 

 exception of a stream resulting from the surface-drainage of 



