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eggs, which had not been extruded, but had made their way out. Was 
this a similar case ? 
Mr. Hennau considered, as glycerine jelly contained carbolic 
acid, which destroyed animal life, that possibly the small pediculi had 
been overlooked and had not escaped from the parent. 
A conyersazione followed, when many very interesting objects 
were exhibited by Messrs. Sewell, Turner, R. Glaisyer, and Wonfor. 
Mr. Wonror announced that Lord Gage had granted permission 
for the Society to visit the Plashet Park and Woods on the occasion of 
the field excursion to Isfield. In the letter conveying the permission, 
His Lordship had communicated a very interesting fact which he had 
observed in connection with the harvest spider. One evening in 
August, while sitting with open windows, several tipule were attracted 
by hislamp. One of these was observed dragging something behind 
it, This went on for two hours, when, His Lordship’s curiosity being 
roused, he caught the tipula, and found one of the harvest spiders 
with his legs interlaced with those of the tipula, which was about ten 
times his size, and which had been whisking it about for two hours. 
It then occurred to him that the animal, so unfitted apparently to take 
any prey, did so by the process of tiring out, as the wolverine and 
some African leopards are said to do, though they haye weapons for 
shortening the process. 
JUNE 8TH, 
ORDINARY MEETING.—MR. G. SCOTT ON THE 
SUFFOLK TERTIARIES. 
After pointing out the mistake which was apt to be made by 
students at a distance of confounding the Suffolk Crag with the Drift 
of Suffolk, the latter being a Post Tertiary deposit, due to ice and 
water agency, whereas the Crag belonged to the Tertiary deposit lying 
above the chalk, Mr. Scott said the formations locally known in 
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