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Turning to the subject of Zoology, a little difficulty arose, 

 because, while the subject naturally divided itself into the verte- 

 brates and the invertebrates, it would be with the latter that the 

 gi'eater difficulty would be encountered. Certainly two, possibly 

 three, sub-committees would be necessary to undertake this work 

 with anything like satisfaction. Mi-. F. E. Sawyer had done so 

 much to clear the way, by his admirable paper and lists of the 

 mammals and birds, that very little more than to add new species 

 and verify recorded ones would have to be done by that section 

 which took vertebrate zoology. He knew it was foreign to the 

 subject, but possibly they might include in their labours the 

 moUusca, i.e., the land and fresh water snails and slugs. 



If so, then one sub-committee might take the insects and the 

 spiders, both of which wei'e well represented in the county ; in fact, 

 few counties of England were so rich in Entomology as the county 

 of Sussex. There were plenty of entomologists, but the majority 

 had paid more attention to lepidoptera and coleoptera, but there 

 were some few gentlemen in Sussex who had devoted considerable 

 attention to the diptera, &c., and doubtless, their co-operation 

 might be obtained in so good a woi'k as the venfying and establish- 

 ing the entomology of the county. 



Some might say nothing had been mentioned in respect either 

 of the Microscopic Fauna and Fauna, nor yet of the Marine, but 

 the latter would doubtless be taken in hand by the botanists and 

 zoologists, while it would be a difficult matter to define the limits 

 of mici'oscopical research. Any way, should the society see fit to 

 appoint a microscopical sub-committee, the result of their labours 

 might give an impetus to work with the microscope among those 

 members of the society who, possessing instruments, did not woi'k 

 systematically at any branch of enquiry, and who might be stimu- 

 lated, if a committee took this under its especial care. What he 

 had briefly stated he considered might fairly be undertaken by the 

 sevei'al committees he had named — viz.. Meteorology and Geology ; 

 Anthropology; Botany; Vertebrate and Invertebrate Zoology. He 

 threw down these ideas for discussion by the members, and should 

 the society approve of his suggestions, a modification of them, or 

 some other plan which would accomplish the same object, he would 

 endeavour loyally, and to the best of his ability to assist in so good 



