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On Tuesday afternoon a meeting in connection with 

 this society was held at the Assembly Room, Marine 

 Library, Dover, when a paper on " Conchology was read 

 by Ambrose Poyntcr, Esq. 



Colonel HoKSLEY occupied the chair and briefly intro- 

 duced Mr. Poynter, but before that gentleman began, 



J. F. Crookes, Esq., as one of the vice-presidents, ex- 

 pressed a desire on the part of the Society that everybody 

 present should consider themselves pro tern as members of 

 the Society, and ask for any information they required, 

 which he had no doubt would be willingly accorded by Mr. 

 Poynter or any member of the Society. He wished to ask 

 Colonel Cox, who, he believed, was President of the So- 

 ciety at the time when Mr. Buekland gave his lecture, to 

 inform thera of the present position of the Stour Fishery 

 Association. They wished to make their Society practical 

 as well as theoretical, but in the report of the above Asso- 

 ciation presented by .Mr. Buekland, the East Kent Natural 



