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tious in that necessary article, as well as specimens of its affinities, 

 were shown by Mr. E. Moore, amongst these being some of the 

 artificial milk used for feeding infants during the siege of Paris. 

 Close by was placed the tank of the Aquarium Company. Special 

 arrangements as to lighting, &c., had been made for the exhibition 

 of its contents ; and Mr. Lawler certainly had nc3 unatti-active 

 collection. Here was a specimen of the sea anemone — a double 

 dianthus — with two mouths, two sets of tentacles, but only one 

 body! A similar "freak of Nature " had also happened in regard 

 to a baby trout, hatched in the Aquarium. Coming from one ova, 

 it had a veritable Siamese twin appearance ; and, as it was carefully 

 held up to view in a glass bottle, its two heads presented a very 

 peculiar appeai*ance as they converged to the centre and terminated 

 in a single tail. A number of tiny salmon wei-e also shown, and 

 the sea horses in the tank, together with anemones, tube worms, 

 zoophytes, madrepores, all gracefully exposed among rock-work and 

 sea-weed, furnished a noteworthy contribution. 



Electrical experiments were provided by Mr J. P. Capon, who 

 had a powerful battery at work, and the kaleidograph, lent by Mr. 

 G. Nash, was a never-ceasing source of fascination. Amongst the 

 more general collections were skeletiins of turtles, one of which 

 before death weighed SOlbs, exhibited by. Mr Mutton ; sections of 

 telegraphic cables, including portions of the deep sea cables of 1S65 

 and 1866; curious opium pipe from China, from the Grammar 

 School Museum ; a pipe fish exhibited by Mr W. Saunders, and 

 other curiosities. 



In the Banqueting Room Mr. Dowsctt exhibited three fine 

 cases of beetles ; Messrs Wallis and Clayton exhibited an interesting 

 case in which were an iron Crucifix found in the ruins of Lewes 

 Priory ; a pipe of the time of Cromwell, antique silver sugar tongs, 

 spur of the time of Henry VI., dug up in the Queen's road, 

 Brighton, mummy beads, mummy charms, a diminutive mummy 

 ci'ocodile, fossils found in the j^iue lias of Somersetshire, lent by 

 Mr. C. E. Clayton, including paddles and jaws of the ichthyosaurus. 

 A model of the link motion of a locomotive, lent by Mr. Mutton, a 

 capital collection of eggs, and a portion of the jaw of the sperm 

 whale, some six feet long, with most formidable teeth, from the 

 Brighton Grammar School Museum, were also in this room. Mr. 

 Hubert Saunders was a large contributor, and exhibited a dangura, 



