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Town member of the Olub. Sir John Goldney placed on the 

 table " Kirby's Entomology," " Bate's Naturalist on the 

 Amazon," " Wood's Homes without hands" and " Hudson's 

 Naturalists in La Plata " and said that these were the first 

 instalment of the books he had brought from England for the 

 Clul)'s Library, the others would arrive shortly. On the motion 

 of the President a hearty vote of thanks was accorded to Sir 

 John Goldney for his present. The Presideiit I'ead the paper 

 which won Sir John Goldney 's prize, viz., " An excursion to 

 Fondes Amandes Valley." The paper was illustrated by a 

 number of insects, plants, lizards and birds taken or seen on the 

 excursion and Avas listened to with great interest. On its 

 conclusion Sir John Goldney rose and said he had enjoyed 

 the paper very much, and never anticipated that the small prize 

 he ottered would have produced such good results. He would call 

 the attention of the younger members to the quantity of things 

 that could be collected in a short space of time and he hoped 

 that this paper would encourage others to take up the study of 

 Natural History. The Secretary read a letter from Mr. T. 

 Wardle about some silk worm cocoons forwarded to him by Mr. 

 L. Guppy, jr., who exhibited three cocoons of Antheraea jnrnyi, 

 which were conspicuous by their size and the whiteness of the 

 silk. " Notes from the Institute of Jamaica" by Mr. Tyler 

 Townsend were read. The one relative to fungus Peronsopora 

 trichotoina attacking the Tannia ,6'o/c>casi« esculenta was warmly 

 discussed. The Secretary remarked that at the end of last year 

 Ml'. J. Guilbert brought to the notice of the Club a fungus 

 attacking ground provisions, but from want of material it could 

 not be identified. — Some stones, which Mr. F. J. Maingot said 

 were composed of a conglomerate of Iron ? which had enclosed a 

 softer substance which had afterwards dried and formed a loose 

 kernel, were shown by the President, who said that they were 

 given him by Mr. Blache Fraser.^The President also placed on 

 the table a young saw fish, Pristis antiqitorum Lath, which was 

 one of a brood of ten taken out of the mother caught in the Gulf 

 a short time ago,'also a stufl'ed "Houton bird" Momotus bahamensis 

 Swain, which it is alleged swallov/s young cocoa pods, but 

 according to Leotaud lives on insects. Mr. Urich drew atten- 

 tion to the skin taken from a large Crocodile 12ft lOinches long, 

 which had drifted alive from the Orinoco to Port-of -Spain, and 

 said that the Trinidad fauna often received additions of the kind. 

 Not long ago a large Caiman and a huge Anaconda were killed at 

 Cedros on the South Coast both of which undoubtedly had come 

 from the Orinoco. The Secretary drew atttention to a case of 

 insects presented by Mr. A. Lamy and two specimens of Coral 

 snakes from Venezuela presented by Mr.H. J, Baldamus, which he 



