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of the elephant’s tusks and trunk which, as the Lecturer 
remarked, was not quite in the same way as that described in 
Rudyard Kipling’s ‘‘ Just So” stories. One find was that of an 
absolutely new animal, probably related to the elephant, but 
which no one yet had been able to classify with certainty. A 
picture of the skull was shown—quite as fantastic as that of the 
New World Tinoceras, referred to in a later lecture by Dr. Smith 
Woodward. Reference was also made to the discovery of the 
remains of a huge snake, probably a water snake, comparable in 
size to the so-called Sea Serpent. 
Great amusement was caused by the Lecturer’s caustic 
comments on the ‘Superciliousness ” of the camel who seemed 
fully to realize that he was indispensable to a dweller in the 
wilderness, and gave himself airs accordingly, as well as the 
thievish ways of the Arab attendants who accompanied him. 
THURSDAY DECEMBER 3rp, 1903. 
Structure and Form of Shells. 
BY 
Mr. EDWARD CONNOLD, F.E,S, 
(Hon. Sec. of the Hastings and St. Leonards Natural History 
Society), 
WitH LANTERN ILLUSTRATIONS. 
ee common garden snail and the common whelk were 
types of creatures, which were known to naturalists as 
molluscs. All molluscs began their existence in the egg form, 
and there was a great variety in the shape and size of the eggs. 
There was also a great difference in the manner in which they 
were deposited by the parent. Some little snails were hatched 
within the mother, and born alive, but the majority came forth 
from the eggs after they had been laid. Some molluscs laid their 
eggs singly, or in masses, others produced them in the form of a 
ribbon, and were either left free or were attached to some object. 
There was also a considerable diversity in their size, which ranged 
from a small speck to the size of a common snail shell. When 
