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Mr. WONFOR exhibited a white variety of cenfaurea scabiosa and 
several moths of this year, some of which were considered at one time 
local and rare ; specimens of Z. Quadra, four-spotted footman, which 
had been rather plentiful in Sussex this year, one specimen of which 
was taken in his (Mr. W.’s) own garden; cocoons of the puss-moth 
on the bark of elm, to show how the creature simulated the appearance 
of the tree bark on which the cocoon was formed ; and flakes and 
oak charcoal from the Black Burgh. 
Mr. DAVEY mentioned that he had taken V. Antiopa, Camberwell 
Beauty, near Lewes. 
Mr. WONFOR remarked that this insect had been abundant this 
year. He had been told that upwards of 200 had been taken. 
Mr. G. D. SAWYER exhibited the Tree Onion, a plant which sends 
up a stem 18 inches long, on which a bunch of onions is formed, and 
from these there grows a pendent, at the end of which another bunch 
is formed ; also fossils in flints. 
Mr. W. SAUNDERS exhibited a flying lizard from Cochin China, 
and a locust from Egypt. 
Mr. H. J. H. NICHOLLS mentioned that he had taken Detopeia 
Puilchella (crimson speckled footman) on the Marine Parade. 
Mr. CHARLESWORTH exhibited portions of the lower jaw of the 
sperm whale, and called attention to its peculiarity osteologically, 
as being a mammalian jaw on the type of the reptilian, and, odonto- 
logically, to the possession of teeth only in the lower jaw, in which 
it resembled the horned ruminants. At present, no satisfactory ex- 
planation of the use of the teeth had been given. He also showed a 
portion of the jaw of a hippopotamus, cut to show the position of the 
teeth ; a vertebra of an Iguanodon from the Wealden, showing the 
non-ossification of the neural canal ; and Choanites from the Sussex 
coast, in which the silex, as in other Sussex flints, assumed the 
form of chalcedony. 
Previous to the above, the receipt was announced for the 
herbarium, from Mr. G. DAVIES, of a rare lichen new to Sussex, 
Cali.tum septatum, found by Mr. Davies, August, 1872, in Ashdown 
Forest (this lichen is parasitic on Thelotrema lepadinum, on shaded 
holly trees, and previously had been found in England in Yorkshire 
and the New Forest only) ; and from Mr. CHARLESWORTH, provisionally 
for the Town Museum, of about 40 autograph letters of Dr. Mantell ; 
