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present to the Club a monthly copy of the ' Journal of 

 Botany.' Mr. Eichard Noakes has presented a collection of 



Exhibits, Eecokds, &c. — A Goosander is reported as seen 

 on Gatton Lake, by Mr. J. H. Gurney, jun., of Norwich. 



Botany. — Mr. A. J. Crosfield exhibited at one of the Club's 

 meetings specimens of the following rare plants found by him 

 dimng the preceding summer : — Gallinsoya parviflora, a 

 South American plant naturalised in neighbourhood of Kew ; 

 Campanula persicifolia, from a valley north of Box Hill ; Ver- 

 basciim Ujchnitis, near Sanderstead ; Orobus tuberosus, var. 

 tenuif alius, Addington Hills, near Croydon. 



Mr. W. H. Summers, of Dorking, sent a specimen of 

 Hordeum sylvaticum.,'' a'.' plant not mentioned in Brewer's 

 ' Flora,' found near Eanmore Common. Orchis ustulata has 

 been found on Eeigate Hill (by Mr. John Linnell and others). 

 A specimen of double-flowered Anemone was found by Miss 

 Hogben on one of the excursions, between Eeigate Hill and 

 Betchworth. 



A living specimen of the old English Eat {Mus rattus) was 

 exhibited at one of the meetings of the Club by the Hon. Sec. 

 (Mr. J. J. Gill). 



A Prize was offered by Mr. W. GiKord for the best geologi- 

 cal collection, and two prizes by the Club for the best 

 botanical collections. The geological prize was not competed 

 for, and only one botanical collection was sent in, viz., one by 

 Mr. K. Peters illustrating fifty-three Natural Orders, for 

 which a prize of £1 was awarded him by the Committee. 



Meteokology. — Mr. W. H. Tyndall presented his usual 

 tables and notes for the past year. The most interesting 

 feature of his report was an account of the tremendous gale 

 of April 28th and 29th, when sea-spray appears to have been 

 carried over a great extent of country, and was distinctly 

 perceptible at Eedhill, the windows facing south being en- 

 crusted with salt, and young leaves and blossoms destroyed 

 either by the cutting force of the gale or the salt spray that 

 it bore. A very fine Aurora on November 17th and a 

 remarkable sunrise on February 13th were also reported. 



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