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John Parker, Esq., Jun. ; and this gave rise to so much conversation, and 
elicited so much information from the President, that another paper which 
had been communicated was postponed until a future meeting. The Presi- 
dent exhibited specimens of bones and antlers of an extinct deer found in 
gravel while digging the new docks at Bristol; a map, showing the locality 
in which they were found, was produced ; anda brief account of their dis- 
coyery given. ‘The objects exhibited were, as usual, numerous}; they 
neluded British and foreign Bats; some living Crabs; Hawthorn in 
blossom, and Herb Paris (Paris quadrifolia) brought by the Secretary ; 
Butterflies and Moths from the West of Africa, presented by W. C. Small, 
Esq.; and casts of the femur, tibia, and metacarpel bone of the Dinornis 
mazimus, with which were contrasted similar bones of the Ostrich and 
Emu. ‘The microscope was, as usual, a great source of attraction ; amongst 
the objects exhibted were a parasite of the Pheasant, foraminifera from the 
Mediterranean, the spiral vessels of a rush, &e. 
Tue ANNUAL CoNVERSAZIONE With which the Winter Session terminates 
was heid on Tuesday, May 4, in the Townhall, and was, if possible, more 
successful than those of former years. The exhibition of objects, although 
rigidly confined to such as were connected with some branch of natural 
history, was remarkably good : it embraced all the most noteworthy of those 
exhibited at the several winter meetings, besides many additions, of which 
the following deserve special mention :—A collection of wood sections, and 
another of fir-cones, lent by Leo. H. Grindon, Esq., of Manchester; objects 
from the Holy Land, by the Rey. C. W. B. Clarke; excavations from the 
Suez Canal, by H. Groome, Esq. ; yases of eels, mussels, cray fish, ‘ete., from 
the Thames; and many more. ‘The splendid collection of -Kingfishers, 
brought by R. B. Sharpe, Esq., in illustration of his paper demands special 
mention; itincluded not only rare, but unique, specimens, and is unsur- 
passed by any in Europe. JBesides the birds themselyes, Mr. Sharpe 
exhibited a collection of drawings, being the original from which the plates 
in his monograph of the Alcedinide are taken, A bank of wild flowers, 
arranged with great taste by the Misses Giles, attracted much attention ; 
besides most of the more interesting plants of the Wycombe district, rarities 
from different parts of the country including Saaifraga oppositifolia, from 
the Clova mountains‘ the true Oxlip (Primula elatior, Jacq.) from Safiron 
Walden, Essex; the Mountain Pansy (Violalutea), the Globe-flower (Z7rollius 
europaeus), the Asarabacca (Asarum europwum), the Spring Cinquefoil 
(Potentilla verna), and the lovely Birdseye Primrose (Primula farinosa), 
from Northallerton, Yorkshire ; the Wood I'orgetmenot (Myosotis sylvatica) 
from Mobberley, Cheshire: and the Vvitillary (Ivilillavia meleagris) from 
Ford, near Aylesbury. The aboye-named ladies exhibited seyeral sets of 
drawings of British plants, which were greatly and deservedly admired for 
