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junction of the Great Oolite with the superjacent Bradford Clay. 

 In both cases the animals had lived and flourished under the 

 conditions in which the calcareous sediment was deposited, and 

 had been killed by a sudden eruption of muddy water, the mud 

 deposited from which had enveloped and preserved them , and is 

 now represented by the shale in which they are embedded. 

 Fossil corals, Lonsdalia floriformis, from the Cai'boniferous Lime- 

 stone, and Thamnastrcsa arachnoides, from the Coral Rag, were 

 also shown. 



Amongst the exhibits worthy of note was a specimen of a 

 curious variety of the common agrimony [Acinmonia enpatoria), 

 having a lax spike of flowers all on long pedicels, gathered and 

 shown by Mr. James Epps. 



At this meeting also tlae photographic section was inaugurated, 

 a very valuable addition to the work of the Club, which has 

 borne excellent fruit at subsequent meetings, and through which 

 we may hope that a pictorial record of many objects of interest 

 will be preserved for the benefit of the members of the Club. 

 With this object it is proposed to form a Club Album, in which 

 photographs of this description taken by our members will be 

 preserved. 



The third meeting, April 8th, was devoted to an address on 

 "Hawks and their Allies," by Mr. J. G. Goodchild, F.L.S., 

 F.G.S., of the Geological Survey, in which he described the 

 classification of this interesting family of birds, the relation and 

 sequence of the various groups into which it is divided, and the 

 points in their structure and plumage on which this classification 

 is based. His description of the mode of capture of the larger 

 hawks in Holland for hawking purposes was most graphic and 

 interesting, and it is no exaggeration to say that the Club has 

 never listened to an address so admirably and copiously illus- 

 trated by drawings. In these all the leading and typical species 

 of the family were represented ; many of them were taken from 

 the life-like and artistic drawings of Woolf, the well-known 

 delineator of birds and animals, but many more were original 

 drawings by Mr. Goodchild himself, taken from the life. (Tkans., 

 art. 51). 



Mr. Philip Crowley added much to the interest of the meeting 

 by exhibiting a complete series of the eggs of the British birds 

 of prey. 



Amongst other exhibits, Mr. McKean showed living specimens 

 of the smooth slug, Limax Iccvis, from St. Mary Cray, a species 

 not previously found in the S.E. of England. 



Specimens of very rare starfishes, Goniastcr Templctonii and 

 Ophiocoma brachiata, were shown by Mr. Lovett, both from 

 Pendean, near Tenby, South Wales. 



At the fourth meeting. May 13th, Mr. W. H. Beeby 



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