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GanUrluryj Mpril //, ^867. 

 Reprinted from "Kentish Gazette," May 14, 1867. 



At the second of the series of monthly meetings of this 

 Society, held in the Museum, Guildhall-street, on the 17th 

 April, in the absence of the Rev. Dr. Mitchinson, who was 

 expected to address the members of the Society on a geo- 

 logical subject, Colonel Cox, the president of the Society, 

 delivered an excellent address on a rare spider of the West 

 Indies, and showed its nest and male and female specimens 

 to great advantage through very powerful microscopes. 



The chair was occupied by Mr. Alderman Brent, who 

 apologised for the absence of the Rev. Dr. Mitchinson, who 

 was expected to deliver an address on a geological subject. 

 He bad much pleasure in intimating that Col. Cox, the re- 

 spected President of the Society, had come forward to fill 

 the gap thus occasioned, and would give an address, with 

 illustration.s, on some of the rare spiders of the East — par- 

 ticularly the cteniza nidulans ; and he (the Chairman) was 

 sure that the place of the rev. doctor would be well sup- 

 plied. 



Colonel Cox said he had been called unexpectedly to ad- 

 dress the meeting, and had not the time for preparation which 

 he could have wished. The subject he was to say a few 

 words upon, was a very interesting one, and at the outset 



