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Third Meeting — November 15. 

 The President in the Chair. 



PRIVATE BUSINESS. 



Mr. John Aspinall and Dr. Burgess were elected mem- 

 bers of the Society. 



The thanks of the Society were voted to the President, for 

 the presentation of a copy of his pampldet on Education ; to 

 Lieut. Lord, E. N., for the presentation of his Chart of the 

 Approaches to Liverpool from the Sea. 



The Treasurer read the statement of liis accounts. 



PUBLIC BUSINESS. 



Mr. J. B. Yates exhibited a MS. of the time of James I. 

 having the mark giving the name of Pot to paper. It 

 was written by Sir John Davis, author of a work styled 

 Nosce Teipsum ; the subject was a charge to a jury on the 

 poor law. 



Mr. Archer exhibited specimens of Fossd Bones found 

 in railway cuttings in Huntingdonshire. They consisted of 

 grinders, metatarsal bone, clavicle, and others, of the elephant, 

 and a portion of the tusk of the hippopotamus ; also Fossil 

 Shells from the same locality. 



Mr. Cunningham exhibited a specimen of what he consi- 

 dered was the impression of a Medusa, from Stourton Hill. 

 Mr. M "Andrew exhibited specimens of Echini, taken at the 

 depth of 100 fathoms; they consisted of an echinus nude- 

 scribed, of culocair, macandrea and hulotheria squamata. 



Dr. Lnman read a paper, illustrated by specimens under the 

 microscope, on the Circulation in the closed cells, and lym- 

 phatic //airs of certain Plants. 



