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section with a razor. After shaving, if the skin was scraped and 

 the portions of hair found on a razor were washed off with ether, and 

 placed in a drop of turpentine on a glass slide, sections of human 

 hair might be readily got. These might be mounted in balsam. A 

 section of the hair of the pachydermata, especially of the elephant, 

 pi'esented the appearance of eeveral hairs welded together. Next 

 to the bat tribe, the most extraoi-dinary hair was that of the 

 Platypus of Australia. 



Mr. WoNFOB stated, in reply to Mr. H. Saunders, he never 

 found flint in the substance of the hair. On hair of the elephant 

 or pig, or other mammal exposed a good deal, fine particles of 

 dust might be found, but they did not belong to the substance. 

 In reminding the meeting that hair, horn, teeth, and claws lasted 

 longer than the human or animal frame, he also stated that he had 

 obtained some hair off an Egyptian mummy, and it was perfectly 

 red. The reason of this colour he could not at first conceive, the 

 Egyptians not being represented to have been a red-haired race, 

 but subsequently he came to the conclusion, from inquiry and 

 examination made, that the redness had resulted from the sub- 

 stance which had been used to ensure its preservation. 



In reference to what had been said with regard to the power 

 of endurance of the teeth, the President (Mr. Alderman Cox), 

 humorously hinted that the assertion would doubtless be qualified 

 by the majonty present from their own experience. 



A conversation, of a very entertaining character, was main- 

 tained for some time by Mr. C. F. Deunet and Mr. W. Saunders ; 

 and afterwards specimens and sections of hair from vanous 

 animals, and vegetable fibres were exhibited under microscopes by 

 Mr. Haselwood, Mr. Wonfor, Mr. T. Glaisyer, Mr. R. Glaisyer, and 

 Mr. Puttick. 



June 29th. 



ANNUAL EXCURSION. 



The twenty-first annual excursion of the society was to Battle 

 Abbey and the Sub-Wealden Boring at Nctherfield. The majority 

 of the party, which numbered in all about fifty persons, left Brighton 

 by the 7.55 train for St. Leonards ; where carriages wore waiting 



