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male, showing sucker plates, spiracles, mandibles, &c.) and a number of 

 caddis cases ; and F. W. Branson, F.C.S., exhibited a series of marine and 

 fresh-water algse, illustrative of various stages of growth. 



November 27th, 1885. 



H. MYDDELTON GAVEY, M.RC.S., on "OBSERVATIONS ON 

 EGYPTIAN ZOOLOGY, AND NOTES ON THE PRE-HISTORIC 

 ARCHEOLOGY OF THE SAHARA." 



The observations on the Zoology of Egypt, which the lecturer brought 

 before the members of the Club, published in extenso in the Leeds 

 Mercury "Weekly Supplement were, for the most part, personal observa- 

 tions collected during a stay of some months in that strange and historical 

 land; and the archaeological remarks bore upon remains found in the oases 

 which, like islands in the ocean, lie scattered throughout the great Sahara. 



