68 Proceedings 
These transparent floating eggs of Marine Teleostean 
Fishes (the type of egg of practically all our best-known 
marine food-fishes except the Herring) stand out umigue 
among the eggs of vertebrates, as regards the facilities they 
afford, by reason of their transparency and small size, for 
following the development, from hour to hour, and day to 
day (under a fairly high power) of a vertebrate animal, 
in one and the same living egg. 
The paper, so far as time permitted, directed attention 
to some of the interesting points about the structure, shape, 
size, floating and non-floating, and free or adhesive habit 
of the eggs, and the special peculiarities of certain Larvae, 
and the nursing or nesting habits of certain fish. As regards 
all of these we see Nature’s “infinite variety,” and how the 
same idea is “fulfilled in many ways.” 
Some of these points are touched on in the S.E. Natur- 
alist loc. cit. Those interested may consult “The Natural 
History of the Marketable Marine Fishes of the British 
Islands,” by J. T. Cunningham, M.A. There is also the 
more copiously illustrated but more expensive work, “The 
Life Histories of the British Marine Food-Fishes,” by 
Prof. McIntosh and A. T. Masterman, B.A., B.Sc. Most 
of our scientific knowledge of the life histories of Teleos- 
tean Fishes has grown up within the last thirty years, and 
is scattered in scientific periodicals, and in the Reports of 
Fishery Boards, Fish Commissions and Marine Biological 
Stations, British, American and Continental. 
Dr. T.A.Chapman,F.Z.S.,exhibited Butterflies from Spain, 
Italy and Brazil, and made remarks on Mimetic Resem- 
blance. 
Mr.G. E. Frisby moved and Mr. C. E. Salmon seconded : 
“That the members of the Holmesdale Natural History 
Club desire to express their deep regret at the loss of one 
of their earliest and most active members, Mr. W. H. 
Tyndall, who has always taken so great an interest in the 
welfare of the Club.” This was supported by the Rev. E. J. 
Baker and carried unanimously. It was resolved that this 
expression of regret be sent to the deceased gentleman’s 
cousin, Miss Maxwell Smith, 
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