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devastatrix, from a vineyard of the Upper Douro; Mr. S. 
Overton, longitudinal section of ivory; Mr. E. Roper, section 
of stomach, shewing secreting glands; Mr. A. D. Taylor, 
young newt; Mr. Warner, spicules of holothuria; Mr. E. B. 
Sturge, French diagram plates, hoof of horse, mule, and ox, 
the honey bee and apiculture. Batrachospermum, taken 
from Czsar’s Well, Keston Common, was shewn with the 
camera lucida, by Mr. Klaassen. 
Ordinary Meeting, October 16th, 1878. 
ALFRED CARPENTER, Esq., M.D., President, in the Chair. 
The minutes of the last meeting having been read and con- 
firmed, Mr. Lewis Browne was balloted for, and elected. 
The PREsIDENT announced that the South London Micro- 
scopical Club had forwarded a map of the district which they 
had selected for their work, and the map was laid upon the 
table for inspection by the members. 
The PRESIDENT called attention to a fact which he had 
observed, viz., the number of spring flowers which had come 
into bloom this autumn, and produced specimens of rhododen- 
dron, laburnum, common primrose, and common strawberry, 
all in flower, which he had picked that afternoon in a garden 
at Duppas Hill. He also mentioned that he had had both 
apple and pear trees in bloom in his garden last week, but the 
flowers were now too far gone to be picked, or he would have 
brought them with the others. 
Mr. MairLanp GARDNER stated that he also had had some 
pear trees in flower in his garden last week, and he had 
intended to call attention to this fact, as it was not at alla 
common occurrence. 
The PresipEnT also related a remarkable instance of the 
power of instinct in a terrier dog belonging to his son, who 
was a student at St. Thomas’s Hospital. His son took the 
dog with him from Croydon by railway, and left it at his 
lodgings in Lambeth, which were near the hospital. It 
remained there till five o’clock in the afternoon of the day after 
its arrival, when it escaped, and in a little over two hours after 
its escape, it found its way back to his house at Croydon. 
The dog had never before been on the road between London 
and Croydon. 
The PresIDENT also read a paper ‘‘ On the Natural History 
of Hard Water, and on its softening by Clark’s process.” 
(Vide p. 1.) 
