liv. Proceedings. 
molested, they have no more fear of man than they have of 
sheep or deer, but where they are much shot at and disturbed 
they are almost as wild and as wary as Grouse. For these 
reasons he thought it much more probable that the failure of 
the birds to which Dr. Carpenter had referred was due to the 
fact that they had, for some reason, been driven to make 
their nests in the arbor vitce trees, which were only lately 
introduced, and were in many respects very different from our 
native trees and shrubs, and that the birds had not yet learnt 
to adapt the building of their nests to their peculiarities. Re- 
ferring to the use of pieces of paper by birds as materials for 
nesting, Mr. FLower mentioned some curious instances of the 
use of this material: by blackbirds and thrushes, which had 
come under his own observation. 
Mr. Turner thought there was a great deal in Dr. 
Carpenter's theory that the birds were deficient in the 
intelligence which usually belonged to their species, the 
members of which generally selected safe places to build their 
nests in. He had no doubt it was the same bird that built the 
second and third nests, or the children of the first parents, 
who, no doubt, exhibited the deficiency of their parents, 
perhaps, in a more exaggerated form. 
Mr. Lovett, Mr. Futter, and Mr. SarjEant also spoke 
with reference to some of the subjects which had been brought 
before the meeting by Dr. Carpenter. 
The following objects were also exhibited:—Mr. H. M. 
Klaassen, photographs of terminal moraines and of glaciers ; 
Mr. H. R. Owen, coralline ; Mr. E. Lovett, ova of shore crab, 
mactra glauca striated boulder from river Wansbeck; Mr. 
W. L. Sarjeant, quill of porcupine stained, skeleton larva 
under polarised light; Mr. A. D. Taylor, section of cactus, 
shewing spines. 
Ordinary Meeting, Nov. 17th, 1880. 
Joun Fiower, M.A., F.Z.S., President, in the Chair. 
The minutes of the last meeting were read and confirmed. 
The following gentlemen were balloted for and elected :— 
Mr. Francis Thompson, jun., Mr. Nathaniel Bogle-French, 
Mr. W. F. Footit, Mr. W. Topley, F.G.S., and Mr. Charles 
Price Turner. 
The PresipENT announced that Mr. P. Crowley had pre- 
sented to the Club a copy of Professor Bell’s new edition 
of Gilbert White’s Natural History of Selborne, also three 
volumes (for 1867, 1868 and 1873) of Professor Symons’ 
