XC1V Proceedings. 
the work of the Society as comprehensive as possible, will be 
found appended (Proc. p. evil). 
At the meeting held 17th December, notice was given that the 
Annual Meeting would take place on the 21st January. 
Messrs. Corcoran and Weightman were appointed auditors of 
the accounts for the past year. 
Hxeursions. 
The following Excursions have taken place during the year, 
viz. >— 
April 13th. — Visit to the Natural History Museum, South 
Kensington, of which Mr. G. W. Moore furnishes the following 
report :—- 
‘‘A good number of members and a few friends met on 
Saturday afternoon, 13th April, with the object of seeing the 
Zoological Galleries and Whale House. Dr. Bowdler Sharp 
was unable to conduct the party, as had been arranged, but was 
represented by Mr. W. Pyecraft, to whom the Club is much 
indebted for the interesting manner in which he conducted the 
party through the galleries, explaining the arrangement of the 
specimens, and the objects for they were exhibited. 
“ Attention was first directed to the cases in the Central Hall, 
illustrating the theory of evolution, of mimicry, and change of 
colour in animals due to season and habitat. 
‘‘The whale-house was next visited, and attention called in 
passing to a model designed to illustrate the colouring of marine 
animals and fishes, 7.e. dark on the back, and light, or almost 
white, on the ventral portions of their bodies. The whale-house 
contains a splendid exhibition of. the Cetacea, from the common 
porpoise (fam. Delphinide) to the cachalot or sperm whale, and 
the whalebone whale (Balena mysticetus). The different struc- 
tures were carefully indicated, and attention specially drawn to 
the atrophied rudiments representing the lower limbs in the 
terrestrial Mammalia, also to the number of the bones in the 
paddles corresponding to that in the human arm and hand. 
“Mr, Pyeeraft then conducted the party through the Bird 
Gallery, arranged to illustrate as exactly as it is possible to do 
the habits of the birds under natural conditions.” 
April 2%th.—Excursion to Grove Park and Chislehurst, in con- 
nection with the Geologists’ Association, to examine the sections 
in the Lower London Tertiaries opened up on the widening of 
this portion of the South Eastern Railway. Conductor, Mr. 
William Whitaker. 
May 11th. — Rock Pit, Klmstead Lane, Chislehurst. Con- 
