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Eighth meeting, 12th March, 1878—Robert 
Young, Esq., in the chair. Joseph J. Murphy, Esq., 
reader. Subject, “Colour and Mimicry in Animals 
and Plants” (read by the secretary.) 
Ninth meeting, 26th March, 1878—R. L. Patter- 
son, Esq., in the chair. Surgeon-Major Walter Fry, 
reader. Subject, ‘‘ Notes on the Birds of the Travan- 
core Jungles.” 
Tenth Meeting, 2nd April, 1878—Robert Young, 
Esq., chairman. J. Harris Stone, Esq., reader. Sub- 
ject, ‘“‘ Interdependence of Animals and Plants.” 
Eleventh meeting, 18th April, 1878—Robert 
Young, Esq., in the chair. Dr. Gilbert Kirker, reader. 
Subject, “‘ Notes on Adrianople and Constantinople.” 
In addition to the president’s introductory ad- 
dress, there have been ten meetings. Of the papers 
read six were purely natural history papers, two were 
connected with subjects of natural philosophy, two 
were descriptive of foreign countries, and two were 
geological. The council hope that their staff of active 
reading members will receive some accessions ere 
long. They are particularly desirous that young men 
should join, so as to fill up the vacancies which lapse 
of time inevitably causes in an old society. The col- 
lections have continued to receive valuable supervision 
both from your own members and from those members 
of the Naturalists’ Field Club who have for some 
years past assisted in re-arrangement. ‘They are now 
nearly as fully arranged as the space at the society’s 
disposal will admit. 
Some interesting additions have been made to 
the genera! collections, and your library continues to 
receive steady accessions to its shelves from various 
scientific societies both at home and abroad. The 
