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Our Annual Conversazione was, as usual, a great success, 
and took place September the 30th. The rooms were open, 
as on the previous year, both afternoon and evening. On this 
occasion we had the opportunity of seeing the splendid 
collection of Water-colour Paintings of Fossil Fish, most kindly 
lent us by the late Sir PuHitip EGERTON, Bart., F.R.S. The 
great feature, however, of our annual gathering, is the exhibi- 
tion of Microscopes, which has year by year increased both 
.in number and quality. The examination of the objects” 
has always been a source of much interest, but this year, 
thanks to Mr. SHEPHEARD, MR. SippALL, and many others, 
we were furnished with a classified catalogue, so that there 
was much instruction to be gained over and above the 
pleasure always to be derived from contemplating forms of 
beauty and marvels of structure, which, but for the microscope, 
would remain amongst the hidden things of nature. We have 
also to thank the members of the Liverpool Microscopic Society, 
and the Wrexham Society, for so kindly lending us assistance. 
The collection of Lower Silurian Fossils, from North Wales, 
shown by Mr. Ruppy, deserves more than a passing comment, 
and it is to be hoped will one day find a worthy location, and 
the collector reap the reward he so well merits by zeal and hard 
work in the cause of science. ‘The collection of Paleozoic 
Polyzoa, shown by MR. SHRUBSOLE, was one of great value, and 
our Mountain Limestone is well represented? Miss MAssy’s 
drawings of the Horse-Chesnut, bud and blossom in different 
stages were for the first time shown, and thanks to the kindness 
and liberality of the artist, they now adorn our Lecture Room. 
In the course of the evening the Kingsley Memorial Medal 
was presented by Mr. A. O. WALKER to our President, 
Pror. T. McK. HuGuers. ‘The high position he has attained in 
the scientific world, the real work he has accomplished in the 
field of Geology, together with the kindly zeal and interest he 
has ever evinced in the welfare of our Society, all marked him 
out as a worthy recipient of a memorial which seeks to keep 
alive the memory of our Founder, the Rev. CHARLES KINGSLEY, 
