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earlier remains have been found lower down in the Trias. Mrs. 
Park then mentioned the huge Deinosaurs which have left so 
many remains behind, such as Megalosaurus, a carnivorous lizard 
thirty feet in length, Teleosaurus, a crocodile seventeen feet long, 
and the curious bird-reptile known as Pterodactylus. These were 
illustrated by sketches. She also showed a number of teeth, 
scutes, and bones of these creatures, and a number of fossil shells, 
as well as leaves and twigs of cycads and other plants. There 
was strong evidence, she stated, that this deposit was formed in 
a lagoon to which flooded rivers carried the drowned bodies of 
land animals and plants to mix with the dead inhabitants of the 
water, all eventually to be covered up with the soft mud and re- 
served for the future inhabitants of the world to find. 
The following exhibits were laid upon the table :—Two rare 
specimens of African parrots by Mr. Herbert Goodchild, M.B.O.U. ; 
a shell-less mollusc (Doris) with egg-strap, and also some African 
tortoises by Mr. Hugh Findon; and an hydrozoon (Hydractinia 
echinata) and an Ascidian (Salpa mucronata) by Dr. Williams. 
The last exhibitor again raised the question, discussed at the last 
meeting of the section, as to the grouping and “ place in nature ”” 
of the Ascidians, and showed by this example and the one he 
had previously shown, how it was that zoologists to-day did not 
regard them as a link between the vertebrates and invertebrates, . 
but as degenerate forms of the former. 
Friday, February r2th, 1904. Mr. Geo. Avenell in the chair. 
Miss Garlick read a paper entitled ‘Popular Flower 
Names,”’ the chief aim of which was to suggest an answer to the 
objection so often made to botanists that they gave flowers such 
hard and long names. She thought that perhaps the difficulty 
was due to misapprehension on the part of the general public 
that it was part of the botanist’s duty to supply names for ordinary 
use, when as a matter of fact, the botantists’ standard in naming 
must not only be more exacting, but different. Since he must 
name every plant with regard to its place in a world-wide system, 
_ his name must be acceptable to the learned world and founded 
upon generally accepted rules, while the popular name is free 
from all these restrictions. She pointed out that a compromise 
_ had been attempted between the scientific and popular names 
- of plants by translating, so far as might be, all the scientific 
names in the British flora, but that the compounds were 
_ awkward and not needed in ordinary speech, and that the observer 
who could distinguish all the species was quite prepared to use 
__ the scientific nomenclature. Such cumbrous compounds as “the 
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