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Friday, November 12th, at 8.30 p.m. Mr. G. E. Jones in the 
chair. 
Mrs. Park exhibited Jurassic fossils; the result of five days’ 
search near Bridport, Dorset. 
Mr. Hugh Findon, F.L.S., exhibited Littorina littorea irom old 
turf near Camden Road, apparently having become partially 
fossilised. 
Mr. Bristow J. Tully, F.G.S., read a paper on ‘ Pearls ’’ 
illustrated by specimens of Pearls and Pearl Shells. 
The paper dealt with their History, Cultivation and Natural 
History ; also the growth and structure of Pearl Shells and the 
commerce in Pearls and Mother-of-Pearl. 
There was some discussion at the close of the paper in which 
Mr. Tully, Mr. Channing, Mr. Radcliffe, Mr. Purry and Mr. Findon 
took part. 
Friday, December roth. Mr. P. E. Vizard, Vice-President, 
in the chair. 
Mr. Herbert Goodchild exhibited, on behalf of Mr. James E. 
Whiting, a Female Sparrow Hawk (Accipiter nisus Linné) and a 
Tawny, Brown or Wood Owl (Syrnium aluco Linné), both of Hamp- 
stead. 
Mr. Albert Hinderlich exhibited pupe of the large and small 
White Butterflies, and of a Noctinal Moth, all taken in Hampstead, 
which it was proposed to rear for the Society’s collection. 
Mr, W. G. Snowden Gard, LL.B., read a paper entitled 
‘‘The Making of the Isle of Wight,’? which he illustrated 
by a map of the island and neighbouring coasts, and by diagrams 
showing the contortions in the strata of the island extending 
to the Weald. 
The main portion of the paper was occupied with the denuda- 
tion of the strata by rivers as connected with the scenery, and 
the latter part showed how the Frome River was the agent by 
which separation was effected. 
Mr. Wintour Gwinnell, B.Sc., F.G.S., a visitor, amplified the 
remarks by the lecturer concerning the Frome and Solent. He 
said the source was probably in Lundy Island, and the course 
through Spithead, along the coast of Sussex, through the Straits 
of Dover and the North Sea, and discharging near the Shetlands. 
The first meeting of the Systematic Class of Elementary 
Zoology, conducted by Dr. F. O’Brien Ellison, took place in the 
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