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Cissbury pits, and respecting which he read a paper before the 

 members of the society. 



A fine collection of shells, some of them beautifally marked, 

 was exhibited by Miss Glaisyer. 



In the Saloon, the cases of stuiFed birds lent by Mr. E. T. Booth 

 at once attracted attention. With respect to these, it was, as Mr. 

 Wonfor remarked in the course of the evening, difficult to tell 

 where " Nature ended and Art began." While the natural features 

 were well preserved, Art came in to aid in the accui'ate represen- 

 tation of the suri'oundings. The birds exhibited formed part of a 

 magnificent collection which Mr. Booth has formed. They had all 

 been shot by himself and are, eventually, to be place in a permanent 

 building, which has been erected especially for their reception, on a 

 piece of ground aljutting on the Dyke road. Every bird in the 

 collection is shown with something of its natural suri-oundings at 

 the time of the capture. This has been done by sketching the spot 

 and afterwards reproducing it by means of modelling. The 

 mounting is entirely artificial ; but is, nevertheless, wonderfully 

 realistic, and this even in the most minute detail. Regard being 

 had merely to those cases shown in the Saloon, it might be said 

 truly that ornithology never found a more artistic and complete 

 exemplification. Whether one looked upon the owls taken at 

 Chiltington, the moor hens obtained on Loch Glyn, in Ross-shire, 

 or the specimens of the cuckoo, the wagtail, and other members of 

 the feathery family taken in the vicinity of Brighton, there were 

 still to be seen the botanical productions peculiar to each, while the 

 geologist, would find it difficult to discover a defect in the character of 

 the strata in each case represented. Mr. Booth has made a special 

 study of the subject ; and, no expense being spared, he has, by dint 

 of great labour, succeeded in getting together the unique collection 

 of which he is the fortunate possessor. A specimen of the great 

 African Albatross, together with a pair of splendid lyre-birds, 

 supplemented Mr. Booth's collection. These latter were exhibited 

 in the Drawing Boom by the President of the Society (Alderman 

 A. H. Cox, J.P.) 



In the South Drawing Room Mr F. E. Sawyer had a large 

 collection (jf meteoi'ological instruments, weather charts, and other 

 appliances for the study of the atmosphere and its eltects. 

 Apparatus for the analysis of milk, and the detection of adultera- 



