PROCEEDINGS OF THE SOCIETY. 167 
was warmly applauded ; at its conclusion, conversation on the subject took 
place, and the sympathy of the meeting with “ our feathered friends ” was 
strongly expressed. A paper by Mr. ULLYETT, on The Ichthyosaurus ge 
followed, which will be found at page 148 of the present number. A long 
and spirited discussion followed the reading of this paper, the President 
expressing his opinion that the vertebr from Wheatley were those of the 
Plesiosauros. In ihe course of the discussion the President pointed out the 
difference between the Pleiosauros and Ichthyosauros; that the one had 
no sockets in which the teeth were‘inserted, but that the former had a 
prolongation of tooth. This was illustrated by the cast of a large Pleio- 
saurian tooth in the British Museum: this gigantic tooth is a foot in length 
and the fang by which it was embedded in the jaw can be distinctly seen 
The President exhibited some very beautiful and perfect remains of the 
Bos primogenius, from some ancient beds of river drift, lately discovered 
and sent to him from Bristol; there was an almost perfect skull and very 
fine horn cores; the horn cores of another specimen ; and the pelvic 
bones. On the table there were a large humerus of Plesiosauros from the 
Kimmeridge clay, Weymouth ; and a slab containing the paddle and ribs 
of Ichthyosaurus communis from the Lias, Lyme Regis. &c., ke. 
Hotes, Correspondence, ae. 
LATE SwALtows, &c,—On Nov. 
30, Mr. Tomlinson, under-gar- 
dener to Lord Carington at the 
Abbey Gardens, brought me a live 
feeding upon the haws in the 
hedges ; and never during the last 
15 years have I seen such large 
flocks of those birds—R. M. Bow- 
swallow which he had caught in 
the packing house. ‘The bird was 
very lively and well-fed. I let it 
go in my hay loft, where it flew 
about several times and finally 
settled on a rafter under the tiles. 
I have not seen it since, but 
thought it would interest the 
readers of our magazine to know 
how late a swallow had been seen 
in these parts. Owing to the 
severity of the weather, I have 
noticed this year (186) immense 
flocks of field-fares and redwings 
STEAD, M.D. 
“On Saturday, Nov. 20, a very 
fine day for November, a house 
martin was seen flying ahout on 
the ogee = nea r, the Brocas, Eton. 
It was skimming the water, and 
aaevonily as erone on the wing 
as in the bright days of summer.— 
R.S.”—Vield, Nov. 30. Thesame 
paper for Nov. 23 records the 
notice of a swallow at Windsor 
Castle on the 16th, and of a swift 
at Henley on the 11th, of that 
month. 
