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by Mr. Wonfor was a newly-hatched salmon, and by Mr. Lee the 

 head of the well-known insect, the " Daddy Long-legs," beautifully 

 mounted in glycerine. 



Galvanic batteries and electrical apparatus were exhibited by 

 Mr. Benjamin Lomax, Mr. J. Capon, Mr. R. Glaisyer, and T. Cooper. 



At half -past eight, the President, Mr Alderman Oox, delivered 

 an inaugural address in the Banqueting Room. It was a rule of 

 the Natural History Society that, at the annual soiree, the Px-esident 

 and other members should deliver short addresses. For the sake 

 of the assembly, as well as his own, he was glad to say that ten 

 minutes was the usual time allotted. He recollected the distinguished 

 ability of many of the gentlemen who had preceded him in the chair 

 which he had now the honour of occupying ; and he had always 

 felt it to be somewhat presumptuous in his venturing to accept an 

 office which was pressed upon him by those who had too favourable 

 an opinion of his attainments. He knew that their society had 

 amongst its members nearly all the scientific men in Brighton. 

 He also knew that on these occasions they were proud of the 

 company of many young persons and ladies who had not made 

 natural histoi"y their particular pursuit. It was to those he wished 

 to address his few remarks; for he desired to create in their 

 minds an intelligent interest in the pursuits of the society and the 

 specimens of natural history in the museum. He was not going to 

 trouble his young fi'iends with any technical phrases, but perhaps 

 in one of the rooms they might have observed lumps of granite. 

 These were called primary rocks ; they were crystaline in their 

 character, broke like pieces of lump sugar, and when broken showed 

 no signs of either vegetable or animal life. They were most 

 durable in their character ; but, like everything in creation, they 

 were subject to change. Jei'sey was built upon the primary rocks, 

 and at places might be seen large masses which had become 

 displaced, and nearer the seashore smaller pieces. As the tide rose 

 and fell, ebbed and flowed, those pieces were rubbed the one 

 against the other, and fine sand was formed. After the lapse of 

 ages, this sand became a sedimentary rock ; they were sti'atified ; 

 they bi'oke into layers, and did not break, like the primary rock, 

 into crystaline masses. 



Some of their pavements were composed of this species of stone, 

 and most valuable it was for building purposes. He did not allude 



