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Excttj^sixitt to: St. Mati^Q^v.U^s Bay:, 



6€ugust //, ^868. 



The second excursion of the year was to this delightful 

 locality, which the Society had upon two previous season 

 visited under most unfavourable circumstances as regarded 

 the weather. Upon this occasion the early morning was 

 overcast and threatening, but it cleared by ten o'clock, and 

 afforded an agreeable day for out-door research. 



The President and his friends arrived in Dover by the 

 London, Chatham, and Dover Railway about 10 a.m., and 

 were met at the Priory Station by the Secretary, Major 

 Munn, Messrs. W. P. Mummery, R, H. Jones, E. Horsnaill, 

 and other Dover members, and at once left for St. Margaret's 

 Bay, arriving there about noon. 



As the tide was fast flowing, the party at once proceeded 

 to the rocks beyond the Foreland Cliffs, to the westward of 

 the Bay, and succeeded in capturing and collecting speci- 

 mens of the Fatherlasher (Cottus gobio). Smooth Blenny 

 (Blennius pholis). Black Goby, Rock Prawn, and Actinia 

 mesembryanthemum. Also, Bowerbankia, Flustra foliacea 

 and other Zoophites ; among the Algoe — Plocanium Danza 

 and that beautiful weed Delesserin Sanguinea. 



A curious parasite was found on one of the prawns 

 captured, fixed beneath the carapace, which was consider- 

 ably enlarged. On being dissected out it was found to 

 measure nearly half an inch in length, and must have been 

 a very undesirable travelling companion. The rocks by 

 this time being covered by the flowing tide, the party by 

 adjourned to luncheon under the shadow of the white cliffs. 



