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the rapids of a North American river, showing the difference of tex- 
ture, as required by the circumstances under which it was found. 
Prior to reading his notes on shells Mr, Robertson called attention 
to the death of Thomas Geeran, an old soldier often seen begging in 
the streets of Brighton, whose case he mentioned in a paper on Sussex 
Centenarians, a biography of whom had been published asserting he 
was in his 104th year. Inquiry did not confirm this statement. The 
Rev. A. A. Morgan had written to Geeran’s native parish, Scariff, 
County Clare, and received a reply from a Roman Catholic clergyman. 
The reply was to the effect that Geeran might be as old as he said, but 
there was no register of his birth or baptism to prove it. He had read 
this letter to Geeran and asked him if it was likely he would have 
been such a fool as to enlist as a soldier in a drunken frolic at the age 
of thirty—twenty being the more likely age for such frolics. Geeran 
laughed ; he did not repeat the statement that he enlisted at thirty, 
but only added ‘‘even if I was only twenty, I must now be a pretty 
good age.” 
NovEMBER 23RD. 
MICROSCOPICAL MEETING.—MR. T. H. HENNAH ON 
“ ANIMAL PARASITES.” 
Mr. Hennah, in introducing the subject for the evening, ‘* Animal 
Parasites,” remarked that they had been induced to select them as a 
subject for consideration and examination, because Dr. Cobbold, an 
authority on Entozoa, had recently lectured before the Medico- 
Chirurgical Society, and, by the courtesy of Mr J. J. Murray, the 
President of that Society, many members had had the privilege of hear- 
ing him, when a goodly number of new facts had been brought to 
their notice. 
Speaking of the Entozoa, it must be borne in mind that 
they were a very numerous family, consisting of several genera and 
species, living within the bodies of those animals in which they took 
up their abode, some occupying one part of the system, others another, 
