exvi Proceedings. 
Foraminifera and the best means for their extraction from their 
surroundings. 
The first meeting of the autumn and winter session of the 
Society was held on Tuesday, Sept. 16th. A very creditable 
number of exhibits were shown; as usual on this occasion no 
paper was read. 
At our monthly meeting held on the 21st of October, Mr. 
Clinch read his very interesting paper entitled ‘‘ The Recent 
Discoveries at Waddon.” 
At the ordinary meeting on November 8th, Mr. W. F. Stanley 
gave a paper entitled ‘‘ Examples of perfect Flint Implements 
of the First Dynasty of Egypt’’; and also drew attention to two 
early mirrors in copper found in recent excavations at Abydos. 
Some beautifully fine and perfect specimens of flint implements 
were shown. On a spear-head shown by Mr. Stanley there were 
fine sharp cutting teeth equally spaced along the edges of only 
the fiftieth of an inch apart, and the blade of flint of seven inches 
in length was only one-sixth of an inch in thickness at its centre. 
Mr. Stanley described one mirror as being made from native 
copper, presumably before the art of casting this metal was 
known, and this had been set in a handle of fossil hippopotamus 
tooth, so that, being imperishable, the handle was perfectly 
preserved. Another mirror was also shown, but less ancient, 
found on the breast of a mummy, upon which the mummy- 
cloth was preserved by being saturated with the corroded 
copper. 
Dr. Parsons was then called upon to give his two short papers, 
entitled respectively ‘‘ The Flora of Hayes Common”’ and ‘‘ Some 
Notes on the Flora of the Hastern Border of Dartmoor’; the 
former being a most valuable record of the plants of Hayes 
Common. 
On December 16th I gave a paper entitled ‘‘ A Trip to the West 
Indies,” being a short account of the enjoyable holiday I had 
had last winter to the West Indies; it was illustrated by lantern- 
slides and specimens. 
The following evening, December 17th, Mr. Speyer kindly 
gave the Society a grand treat with his most interesting lecture 
entitled ‘‘Round about the Matterhorn.” The Large Hall was 
engaged on this occasion, and the public invited to attend. The 
lecturer cannot be too highly praised for his grand series of 
slides, which are direct from nature, and have in no way been 
‘‘ faked,”’ and are his own work. Mr. Speyer is proud of being 
