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wheat, 56s; oxen, £7 each; a horse, £4 10s; sheep, 9s. Present 
prices: malt, 643 per qr.; oats, 24s; barley, 38s. ; wheat, 603; oxen, 
£20 each ; horses, £25 to £50; sheep, 50s to 60s each. 
Mr. Pentey exhibited flexible sand stone from Delhi, pudding 
stone, blood stone, and gems from Agra. 
Mr. G. Davies exhibited about 40 specimens of lichens recently 
obtained in the New Forest, principally from the genera Caliciwm and 
the Graphidee, some of which were representatives of the rarest in 
England, the south of which, he stated, was the head-quarters of the 
Graphidee, a section of lichens but litttle understood by many. 
Mr. W. Saunpers exhibited two very curious fossil echinoderms 
from Egypt, and flint implements, worked on one side, from the tombs 
at Memphis, almost identical with those found in this county. 
Mr. SuritineForp exhibited a fine collection of Indian ferns and 
several cases of very beautiful Indian moths, butterflies, and beetles. 
Mr. Nasu exhibited a rosary made of olive berries from the 
garden of Gethsemane, fruit of the butternut, nests of humming 
birds, walking sticks of coffee tree, black aloe, &c., a wonderful 
example of patience, in the shape of a stick carved by a sailor, showing 
all the knots made aboard ship, and shells of pholas from chalk 
employed in the building of Heene Church. 
Mr. G. Scorr showed pholas shells he had extracted from sand- 
stone forming a part of the walls of Old Shoreham Church. He should 
like to know how the pholas got into the sandstone ; the specimen was 
taken from a block 8ft. from the ground. 
Mr. Wonror exhibited specimens of white crystalline limestone 
from beneath the Falls of Niagara ; a curious specimen of crystalline 
deposit of carbonate of lime, on leaves, from a stream flowing from 
the Himalayas, in which not only the outline and veinage of the leaves 
were well shown, but when the specimen was broken, the leaves also 
were seen to be preserved. Also a number of moths of this year, among 
which were a curious variety of the cream spot tiger, C. Villica, bred by 
Mr. A. Gates, of Belgrave-street, in which the upper wings were almost 
black ; P. Globularie, P. Geryon, M. Fuciformis, and D. Orion, which 
had been freely taken in the County of Sussex this year. 
On the recommendation of the Committee, the following gentle- 
