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to illustrate Mr. Teall's paper. F. C. Bayard, Report of the Krakatoa 

 Committee of the Royal Society. N. Waterall, Piece of stone from 

 the Coliseum, and piece of marble from the Forum, Rome. 



Sejjtember 9th. — E. Lovett, Double nest of Great Tit (Parus major), 

 and eggs ; Stormy Petrels (Procellaria pelagica) from the Shetland 

 Isles. H. T. Mennell, Cones of Araucaria imhricata. K. McKean, 

 Shells of Helix obvoluta, and, under his microscope, jaw of same. 

 C. H. Goodman, Sand-wasp {Ammophila, sahulosa) and case of 

 dragon-flies, &c. W. M. Holmes, Cocoons and pupae of goat moth 

 (Cossus Ugniperda) in wood. E. Straker, Hazel-leaves cut by some 

 insect, with eggs laid on the midrib within the cup formed by the 

 curling of the leaf. John Bemey, Living larvae of the following : — 

 Swallow-tailed moth (Uropteryx sambucaria), small tortoise-shell 

 butterfly (Vanessa urticce), sycamore moth (Acronycta aceris), waved 

 tunber moth (Hemerophila dbruptaria), buff ermine moth (Arctia 

 lubricipeda), brimstone moth (Bumia cratcegata), grey dagger moth 

 {Acronycta psi), poplar hawk moth (Smerinthus populi), goat moth 

 (Cossus ligniperda), peppered moth (Amphidasys betularia), and the 

 large sawfly. 



October lAth. — E. B. Sturge, Photographs collected on his recent 

 trip to the United States and Canada. T. D. Aldous, Mummified 

 kitten from Essiout in Egypt, supposed to belong to the period 700 to 

 900 B.C. 



December 9th. — C. F. Oakley, A series of photo-micrographs. J. 

 Weir Brown, Specimens of kaUitype printing and a curiously-tinted 

 photograph. T. D. Aldous, A new achromatic objective, one-fifth of a 

 millimetre, by Reichert, of Vienna. E. Lovett, Case of insects illus- 

 trating protecting resemblance ; a series of crustaceans (Carcinas 

 meenas), and a slide showing development of its embryo. 



