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before the members the subject of the accommodation pro- 
vided for the Club. The Club had become of that important 
character that it ought to possess its own library and work- 
rooms. He therefore begged to give notice that at the next 
meeting he should submit a resolution bearing upon this 
matter. 
The Rev. E. M. Getpart expressed his surprise that the 
rules of the Club did not permit ladies to attend the ordinary 
meetings, and gave notice that at the next meeting, with the 
object of altering the rules which prevented their attendance, he 
would move that Rule 7 as to membership be altered so as 
to stand as follows :— 
‘«* Any member may introduce a visitor at an ordinary meeting, and 
the name of such visitor, with that of the member by whom the 
visitor is introduced, shall be entered in a book to be kept for that 
purpose.” 
Mr. W.J. Nation read a paper on * Wood sections,” being 
a continuation of the paper read by him at the meeting on 
October 15th. 
In the discussion which ensued, the PRESIDENT called atten- 
tion to the fact that every living being, whether animal or 
vegetable, began its existence as a simple cell, such as Mr. 
Nation had described, so that, at that stage of their develop- 
ment, there was no appreciable difference between a human 
being and the commonest weed. In support of this view he 
read two passages from Dr. W. B. Carpenter's “ Principles of 
Comparative Physiology,” pages 95 and 474, and pointed out 
the very important bearing which this fact had upon the 
doctrine of evolution. 
Mr. E. Lovett read a short paper on ‘ The presence of 
chalk flints on a part of the coast of the Island of Jersey,” 
which was followed by a discussion, in which the President 
and others took part. 
The PRESIDENT also read a short paper on a ‘“ Hen 
Pheasant,” which had assumed male plumage. (See p. Bs 
In the discussion which followed this paper, the Rev. E. M. 
GELDART mentioned that some little time ago, when residing in 
Cheshire, he caught a female of the Common Orange Tip butter- 
fly (A cardamines) which had to some extent the peculiar 
colouring of the male of that species. It was well known that in 
the male Orange Tip about one-half of each of the fore wings 
was coloured a brilliant orange red, whereas, in the female, the 
fore wings were very like those of the common garden white, 
and had no orange colour at all. The female, however, which 
he caught in Cheshire, had on the left fore wing a single streak 
of orange, and two little orange spots, which looked as if they 
