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their views on the past season, and its diminutive fall of rain of 
3} inches between April 1st and July 31st. The Rev. H. H. 
Winwood, in proposing a vote of thanks to the reader, which 
was seconded by Mr. H. D. Skrine, reminded the Members 
that a most instructive paper read on December 7th, 1870, by 
the late President, the Rev. Leonard Blo mefield, on “S. Swithin 
and other weather Saints,” was very well worth their perusal, if 
interested in ancient weather proverbs. One however quoted by 
the President in his paper 
“ Tf there is ice in November that will bear a duck, 
There will be nothing after but sludge and muck.” 
has been singularly falsified by the weather of November, 1896, 
and January, 1897. 
The paper of the President was followed immediately by a 
paper on “‘the Bezoar Stone,” by Mr. R. J. H. Scott. Although 
not of strictly local interest, this quaint stomachic concretion found 
in several ruminant animals, and even in human beings, has from 
early ages been highly prized as an amulet or remedy against 
poisons and illfortune by the ignorant and superstitious, especially 
in Oriental countries. The paper is published as Appendix No, I 
to this summary. Several Members present with Indian 
experience considered the stones used by the natives in India as 
an antidote to snake bites may be of the same origin as Bezoar 
Stones, and Col. Bingham Wright stated that a thorough belief in 
the good luck and prosperity of a family through its long 
possession of sucha talisman came to his knowledge in Greece 
where a family named Vetura prized such a stone as their most 
valuable possession. Hearty thanks were returned to Mr. Scott 
for his interesting communication. 
At a second Afternoon Meeting held on January 13th, 1897, 
under the presidency of Canon Ellacombe, the Rev. H. H. 
Winwood, F.G.S., Vice-President of the Club, gave an extremely 
interesting account in respect to a Rhetic exposure at Boyce Hill, 
