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Donations to the Library and Cabinet from January 3rd to 



February 7tli, 1872 :— 



From 



Land and Water. Weekly The Editor. 



Society of Arts Journal. Weekly Society. 



Nature. Weekly Editor. 



Athenaeum. Weekly Ditto. 



Popular Science Keview. No. 42 Ditto. 



Journal of the London Institution, Nos. 10 and 11 .. .. Institution. 



Transactions of the Linnean Society, Vol. XXVII. Part 4, 



and Vol. XXVIII. Part 1 Society. 



Report of Surgical Cases in the U. S. Army. Circular No. 3 Surgeon-General U.S. 



Journal of the Quekett Club Club. 



Two Slides of Crystals with Colloid Silica H. J. Slack, Esq. 



107 Slides of Australian Zoophytes sent over by C. Maple- 

 stone, Esq , and moimted for the Society by S. J. 

 Mclntire, Esq. 



Six Injected Preparations Moritz PiUischer, Esq. 



Nine Slides of Insect Scales T. W. Wonfor, Esq. 



A Polariziug Medium Thos. Armstrong, Esq. 



The following gentlemen were elected Fellows of the Society : — 



Charles Gibson, Esq. 

 David Johnson, Esq. 

 William Boyd Moss, M.D. 



Walter W. Eeeves, 



Assist. -Secretary, 



Bkighton and Sussex Natukal History Society. 



January 11th, 1872. — This Society, which has been in existence 

 for eighteen years, and during that time done good service in stimu- 

 lating research and in promoting scientific discovery, gave its first 

 invitation soiree to the members and their friends, some 200 of whom 

 met in the Library and Board-room of the Dispensary. 



The walls and tables of both rooms were covered with a large and 

 interesting selection of specimens, drawings, and photographs, illus- 

 trative of each branch of Natural History, in the hanging and classi- 

 fication of which efficient service was rendered by Messrs. E. Glaisyer, 

 Penley, G. Scott, Saunders, C. P. Smith, T. W. Wonfor, and Walsh. 



The leading objects exhibited in the Library were some very 

 beautiful cases of British birds, collected and mounted by Mr. H. H. J. 

 Nicholls ; a white cock pheasant and male and female little gull, in 

 mature plumage, by Mi". Pratt ; a fine collection of shells, by Mr. R. 

 Glaisyer ; a very curious series of Brighton beach pebbles, containing 

 choanites, by Mr. Glaisyer ; fine series of copper ores from the Burra- 

 Burra Mine, by Mr. Wonfor ; chalk and other fossils, by Messrs. 

 Saunders and Dennant ; specimens illustrating the Post-Pleiocene at 

 Brighton, by Mr. J. Howell ; vertebrae of Iguanodon, from the Isle 

 of Wight, by Mr. J. Sewell ; rubbings from Egyptian monuments, 

 by Mr. Nourse ; female white ant, crocodile, &c., by Mr. E. Moore ; 

 while the walls were covered with geological, ethnological, and 

 other diagrams, lent by Mr. Wonfor. 



