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on his immediate right by his Worship the Mayor of Brighton 
(Alderman Sendall), the Chairman of the Hove Commissioners (Mr. 
W. J. Howlett), Mr. F. Merrifield (the Clerk of the Peace for Sussex), 
and Mr. ©. A. Woolley (the Town Clerk of Hove), and on his 
immediate left by Mr. Seymour Burrows (the ex-President of the 
Society), Alderman Cox, Alderman Davey, and Mr. G. D. Sawyer, 
while at the ends of the table, facing one another, sat the Hon. 
Secretaries of the Society, Mr. J. Colbatch Clark and Mr. E. A. Pank- 
hurst. Among others present were Dr. Badcock, Mr. J. Dennant, Dr. 
Ewart, Mr. Daniel Friend, Mr. D. B. Friend, Mr. A. G. Henriques, 
Mr. Aleck Hill, Mr. Marshall Leigh, Mr. C. Lever, Mr. B. Lomax, 
Dr. McKellar, Mr. G. de Paris, Mr. Henry Prince, Mr. Petitfourt, Mr. 
W.-H. Rean, Mr. Rogers, Mr. H. Shaw, Mr. W. Smith, Mr. Thomas 
Smith, Mr. J. Thomas, Dr. Whittle, Mr. John Wood, Mr. Walter, and 
Mr. Isaac Wells. The company, indeed, was of a very convenient size, 
large enough to give the gathering importance and make the proceed- 
ings interesting, but sufficiently small to make it sociable. Good 
management everywhere prevailed, and thus the evening passed in an 
exceptionally pleasant manner. A recherché repast was served soon 
after seven o’clock, and two hours having been occupied in dining, a 
few toasts were submitted. In this respect the Society set an example 
which might well be followed at similar meetings. The toasts were 
only five in number, but they were exceedingly appropriate, and were 
dealt with in a brief and interesting style. The speeches, to use the 
President's own expression, shewed a happy combination of *‘sense” — 
and “nonsense,” though in the place of the latter word might very well 
be substituted that of “‘ humour.” 
The President himself struck the key-note in a few introductory 
remarks which he made, after due honour had been done to the toast 
of “The Queen.” The success of the gathering, he first explained, was 
due, in a great measure, to the ex-President, Mr. Seymour Burrows, 
and to their two worthy Hon. Secretaries, Mr. Pankhurst and Mr, 
Clark, and then he went on to enumerate the toasts, as, being obliged 
to indulge in small economies, they had not been able to provide a 
toast-list. This little duty over, he expressed the pleasure it gave 
them to welcome the Mayor and the Chairman of the Hove Com- 
missioners, who, he remarked, was practically Mayor of Hove, and 
assured those who might think that they had made a false move in 
holding the dinner that there was no danger of lovers of Natural 
History becoming gluttons. He maintained that they wanted their 
social qualities educated quite as much as other qualities, and meetings 
of that kind tended very much in that direction. They knew 
what a disagreeable animal an unsociable man was, and if 
they did not cultivate sociality they would become unsocial, 
for qualities not used after a time became lost. Having 
assured the company that he was not going to inflict them 
with a long speech, Mr. Haselwood in a humorous way, re- 
minded them that sometimes in their discussions they had tried to . 
picture their Jast man on the face of the earth, and in the same strain 
proceeded to argue that man was gradually going, and to give an idea 
of what he might be expected to develope into. Amid laughter, he 
