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we have ever had. There were altogether nine General 
Meetings, and also nineteen Sectional Meetings, as 
follows :— 
GENERAL MEETINGS. 
1899. 
Oct. 20th—Annual Conversazione. 
», 26th—‘* Human Remains from the Local Boulder-Clay ’’— 
Mr. R. NEWSTEAD, F.E,S. 
Nov. 2nd—‘ The Transvaal or South African Republic ”?— 
ROBERT WALLACE, EsqQ., F.R.S.E., F.L.S., &c. 
Dec. 6th—‘‘ The Transvaal and the War’’—Mr. J. D. SIDDALL. 
», 7th—‘‘ Modern Eye Troubles ’’— 
F. M. GRANGER, EsqQ., M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. 
1900. 
Jan. 4th—‘ Artificial Cross-Fertilization of Cereals and Grasses ”— 
Mr. G. P. MILN. 
Feb. 8th—‘ Light and Colour’’: Illustrated by Experiments and Demonstra- 
tions with the Electric Lantern— 
Rev. A. H. Fis, B.A,, B.Sc. 
March 1st—A Demonstration Lecture on ‘‘ Edison’s Grand Concert Phono- 
graph,” by Mr. PARMITER (Manchester). 
», 8th—‘* A Summer Holiday in the Lleyn Peninsula ’”’— 
THE PRESIDENT (MR. J. D. SIDDALL). 
April 5th—‘*‘ Out and about Killarney ’—Mr. J. H. SPENCER. 
SECTIONAL MEETINGS. 
BOTANICAL. 
1900. 
Jan. 25th—*‘ The Photography of Minute Botanical Objects,” by 
Mr. A, E. GoopMAN. 
April 26th —Exhibition of Spring Flowers— 
MEMBERS OF THE CHESTER PAXTON SOCIETY. 
ZOOLOGICAL. 
1900. 
Feb. 1st—‘‘ Ornithological Notes of the past year,” by DR. W. H. Dosir. 
‘* Entomological Notes on last year’s experience at the Electric 
Lights,” by DR. HERBERT DOBIE. 
‘* Cheese-Hoppers ” ; *t Currant-bud Mites” ; ‘ Slug-Worms” ; 
and a ‘‘ Caterpillar Parasite,” by MR. R. NEWSTEAD, F.E.S. 
April12th—‘ Our British Birds” ; A Resumé—Mr, R. NEWSTEAD, F.E.S. 
GEOLOGICAL. 
1899. 
Nov. 9th—‘‘ An Evening with the Rocks and Fossils of our District” : 
Laurentian, Cambrian, Silurian, and Devonian Formations, 
by Mr. A. W. Lucas, F.G.S., & MR. EGERTON GILBERT. 
1900. 
Feb. 15th ( ‘* Carboniferous System of Rocks ”’; including the Millstone Grit, 
and the Mountain Limestone, and Coal, by 
April 19th \ Mr. A. W. Lucas, F.G.S., & Mr. EGERTON GILBERT. 
