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In several places are remains of pile-dwellings. Bones have 
been met with of the Beaver, Badger, Red-deer, Roe-deer, 
Boar, Wolf, Polecat, Ox, and Horse ; also thousands of arrow- 
heads of chert and obsidian. 
In the higher pine-forests of the Tyrol, Mr. Wallis found 
that Bonelli’s Warbler takes the place of the Chiffchaff. He 
met with the Italian House-Sparrow 40 miles beyond the 
boundary of Italy. 
Mr. Wallis exhibited eggs of the Little Bittern and other 
species. 
Miss Crosfield reported on the Meeting of Delegates of the 
Corresponding Societies of the British Association at Liverpool, 
as follows :— 
I was sent this year as your Delegate to the meetings of the 
Corresponding Societies of the British Association. 
As this is the first time that the Holmesdale Nat. Hist. 
- Club has sent a Delegate, it is perhaps advisable to explain. the 
duties and privileges of our Club in connection with the 
British Association. In 1884 the British Association invited 
those Scientific Societies which published ‘ Proceedings’ to 
_ correspond with it and to send Delegates annually to confer 
together. 
The objects of the British Association are stated to be “To 
_ “give a stronger impulse and a more systematic direction to 
scientific enquiry,—to promote the intercourse of those who 
* cultivate Science in different parts of the British Empire, with 
_ “one another and with foreign philosophers,—to obtain a more 
“general attention to the objects of Science, and a removal of 
_ “any disadvantages of a public kind which impede its progress.” 
It is obvious that this step was one eminently in keeping 
_ with the declared objects of the British Association. 
Ido not know what year our Club became a Corresponding 
Society, but probably from the first, in 1884. 
_ My duty as Delegate was to attend two meetings of the 
Corresponding Societies. 
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