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One other remark before closing. We heard constantly of such dis- 
coveries as a large collection of coins of Harold in Sussex ; of 300 or 
400 weapons at Cissbury, andso on. Why was it that so few of them 
found their way to the Brighton Museum? Might it not be that people 
were constantly saying it was the best and largest collection in any pro- 
vincial town, and so on—when, that evening, he could only show 
from its cases a single imperfect polished implement belonging to 
Britain, and one other night he failed to show a single specimen of 
British Pottery. Let all heip to make it known that good as our col- 
lections were, in some departments, there was plenty of room for presenta- 
tions in all. He made these remarks not to find fault, but because the 
Rey. Mr. Beck had lately renewed his promise to him that, as soon as 
his collection of polished weapons from Norway, Denmark, Gothland, 
and Ireland, came back from the Society of Antiquaries, he would make 
a selection to be deposited in our Museum, and, also, because he was 
able to close with the following extract from a letter written some time 
ago by Dr. Stevens :—‘‘I may be permitted to say that I have the 
largest collection of flint implements, and perhaps the most complete 
in England from one locality ; and I have often thought that, at some 
time when they will be no longer of use to me, I would give them to 
the Brighton Museum.” 
JUNE 22nd. 
MICROSCOPICAL MEETING.—SUBJECT, * VEGETABLE 
HAIRS AND SCALES.” 
Mr. Wonror announced that one of their hcnorary members, Mr. 
Curties, of Holborn, had kindly sent down for exhibition a large num- 
ber of slides of hairs and scales of plants, from his private collection, 
as his contribution towards the evening’s business, with a promise 
that at all times he should be pleased to help in the way of specimens. 
Tn the course of a discussion on the nature and uses of hairs and 
scales in the economy of plants, Mr. Hennah mentioned that most 
plants possessing hairs, if properly manipulated, showed the circula- 
