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History Society was not mentioned. He should like to ask 

 Colonel Cox what had been done in the matter ? 



Colonel Cox said the object they had always in view was 

 to carry out in the best possible manner the preservation of 

 everything that related to Natural History in this county. 

 He then referred to the River Stour, and the very large area 

 of water that had been made available for the production of 

 fish for the table, &c., and added that they had invited Mr. 

 Buckland down to Canterbury to give them a lecture upon 

 the possibility of stocking the river with salmon, when it 

 was thought that the Stour might be made a profitable 

 stream, and from that lecture emanated the Stour Fishery 

 Association. The Society distinctly originated the idea of 

 stocking the river with salmon, Mr. Buckland being a paid 

 lecturer ; and it ought to go forth to the public that such, 

 was the case, so that their Society might have its due. Aa 

 regards the Stour Fishery Association, their Society had 

 nothing to do with carrying out its details — all they looked 

 for as naturalists, was to the river cultivated. After a few 

 remarks as to the success which had attended the Stour 

 Fishery Association, he concluded by saying that he agreed 

 with Mr. Crookes that as the Society was instrumental in 

 instituting that Association, having paid Mr. Buckland to 

 lecture at Canterbury for that definite purpose, that fact 

 should be made generally known. 



The Chairman was also of opinion that they ought to 

 give public notice of it, that the Society might have the 

 credit it deserved. 



Mr. PoYNTER then read a very interesting paper on 

 ",Conchology." 



Conchology is a wide subject for a lecture in a small way. 

 Unless it is to be understood in a sense so confined as to 

 strip it'of all interest, it must branch into collateral ques- 

 tions, which cannot be entirely overlooked, even in the most 

 fragmentary discourse. 



Nothing could be less interesting than a description of 

 empty shells, without some allusion to the animals of which 



