92 Proceedings. 



A paper was read by Mr. W. H. Summers ou ' The Orchids 

 of Surrey.' In the course of his remarks Mr. Summers 

 described twenty-eight species of Orchidace(B said to have been 

 found in Surrey. 



Evening Meeting. — Novembeb 9th, 1883. 



The President, Mr. W. H. Tyndall, deUvered a short 

 inaugural address, in the course of which he said that he 

 thought the subjects discussed at our meetings might be of 

 great use and lasting benefit. Science had helped and 

 benefited mankind to an enormous extent of late years. 

 Electricity began with very small beginnings and experiments 

 of an almost trivial nature, but it had been worked out and 

 developed into a science of vast importance. Botany, Geology, 

 Meteorology, and other sciences had all been of almost bound- 

 less value, and the scientific quest upon which our society 

 was bound might be of great benefit both to ourselves and 

 others if properly pursued. 



The following paper was then read by Mr. Edward Lovett, 

 of Croydon, on ' The Habits of the Stalk-Eyed Crustacea of 

 the British Islands': — 



Perhaps no one class of animals is so comparatively little 

 known to the public and so scantily studied by naturalists as 

 the Crustacea. Why this is it is difficult to say, but certain 

 it is that there are few works written upon this subject, 

 whilst there are almost libraries referring to Mammals, 

 Insects, and even MoUusca ; and Bell, the recognised authority 

 up to the present, describes as exceedingly rare, specimens 

 that are simply local, and even figures in his appendix 

 others that one would have thought his keen observation 

 would have brought to light before he finished the bulk of 

 his volume. There are, moreover, many species not men- 

 tioned by him at all which are by no means rare, for I have 

 myself examined over one hundred specimens of Stenorhynchus 

 JEfiyptius taken by one boat in the Channel, and hitherto 

 considered a Mediterranean form. 



From this I have no doubt at all that if the seas around 



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