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The President, Dr. J. Walters, gave a short address dealing 
with the origin of the Club 51 years ago, its history and pre- 
sent position. 
The Annual Meeting then resolved itself into an ordinary 
_ Evening Meeting. 
Present 57. 
Mr. C. E. Salmon called the attention of members to the new 
Flora of Surrey which he hopes to publish, and for which he 
asks the help of members and friends. This work is the com- 
pletion of what has been prepared by Mr. W. H. Beeby during 
the last 23 years. 
Mr. A. E. Tonge, F.E.S., exhibited a series of Coast Dart 
Moths (Agrotis cursoria) which he had caught during the 
summer at Southwold, which shew infinite variations, and a 
series of the Poplar Kitten Moth (Cerura bifida) which he 
had bred aé ovo from parent captured in Reigate, 1907. Also 
a series of Ear Moths (Hydrecia nictitans) from Southwold, 
including the November Moth (A.pa/udis), and a series of the 
large White Butterfly (Prerts Brassice), bred from wild larve 
collected at Potton, Beds., Oct., 1907, the specimens showing 
a partial black edge to hind wings. 
Mr, Alfred B. Gough, M.A., Ph.D., then read a Paper on: 
The Primitive Savage in Early Art and Tradition. 
The persistence of archaic and less vigorous forms of animal 
or vegetable life in remote and isolated regions which the allied 
but more highly organised and efficient forms have not yet 
penetrated, is a phenomenon familiar to naturalists. This is as 
evident in anthropology as in other departments. No little of 
the tragedy of human history is due to the clash of two popu- 
lations, one of which still lingers at a stage of development long 
since passed by the other. As even now there is an enormous 
gulf between the highest and lowest races of mankind, it is not 
improbable that for long ages after our ancestors had attained 
their full human endowment, there lingered in certain secluded 
fastnesses and places of refuge the gradually dwindling hordes 
of semi-human or not fully human beings. 
