■J I REPORTS. 



with and in «vb it t differ from, those of Mr. Darwin. An interesting 



1. Colonel Basevi afterwards exhibited some living 

 organisms under the microscope. 



( >\FORDSHIRE NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY.— Ameeting was heldin 

 are Room of the Botanic Gardens, on the 4th Dec, Professor Lawson 

 in the chair. The rules were revised and passed, the subscription being fixed 

 at 59. per annum till the Society begins publishing a journal, and it was also 

 i to have a field day once a month, and a monthly meeting for the 

 ison of specimens and reading short papers, &e. Professor Westwood, 

 vms unanimously elected president, the other officers being Professor 

 of the Botanical Section ; Professor Westwood, Entomo- 

 B l'onlton, Geological ; Mr. Oliver Aplin, Ornithological; Mr. 

 rical ; Mr. G. C. Druce, Secretary and Treasurer. After the 

 r Aplin exhibited eggs of the Iceland Falcon (Falco 

 Islandicus) and the great Northern Diver (Cohjmhus glaciaJis) from 

 ; the Little Auk (Alca alle) from Davis's Strait; the Manx Shear- 

 water from the Faroes ; the Noddy Tern, from Ascension Island. 

 i exhibited and described a peculiar unicellular alga 

 and Mr. Druce showed Isoetes Mooreii, from Lough Bray, County 

 v, recently discovered thereby Mr. A. Moore, of Glasnevin ; Cystopteris 

 ■ . found this year on Helvellyn, by Mr. Bolton King ; Cham fragifera, 

 found in the Scilly Isles and Penzance, from the discoverer Dr. Ralfs ; and 

 Chara stelligera, from Felby Broad, Norfolk. — On Tuesday, November 9th, 

 Mr. E. B. Poulton gave a lecture ou the "Geology of Shotover Hill," which 

 proved extr. mely interesting. The formation passed over after leaving 

 lien Bridge would be alluvial, deposited over beds of gravel, in 

 which might be found bones of the deer, sheep, and elk, beneath this being a 

 much older gravel, containing bones of the rhinoceros, elephant, and hippo- 

 potamus. From St. Clement's to the rise of Headingtou Hill, the Oxford 

 clay would be passed over, the more abrupt ascent marking the appearance of 

 the coralline limestone, anderneath which was a shallow layer of sand, both 

 the limestone and lining fossils. After getting to the top of the 



mure abrupt dating country would be passed over, marking another 



deposit of clay called Kimmeridge clay. Capped by this at the steepest rise of 

 the hill came the Portland s:uid, a sand containing large masses of limestone, 

 ib ive this, and forming the apex of Shotover, was a formation once 

 ad, bnt which, from the recent discoveries of a certain 

 small on cturer considered to be a fresh water deposit, probably 



of the Wealden formation. Mr. Poulton concluded his lecture by describing 

 the formation of oolitic limestone, of ochre, aud the clay. The lecture was 

 I to illustrate and describe the portion of the hill to be 

 the next field day. After the lecture Professor Lawson exhibited, 

 under I . sections of oolitic limestone, agates, Eozobn canadente, and 



I inifera and 1'olycystina. 



ERBO ROUGH NATUBAL HISTORY AND ARCH .EOLOGICAL 



BOCI1 L8th. — The Bev. J. G. Wood lectured on" Ants "in his 



, mid illustrated his remarks by numerous explanatory 



er 1-t.— Mr. J. C. Buckmaster (of the Science and Art 



I lington) delivered a lecture on "The Application of 



'ure," in the course of which he explained what 



I by the Science aud Art Department by the 



in various parts of the country under the care 



. His hope for the future of agriculture'iu this country, 



mention of those eng I in it, and these 



were already doing great good among those who would be the farmers 

 —Mr. T. C. Hepworth gave a lecture on " The 

 Electric Light," aud exhibited a number of interesting experiments illustrative 

 of his subject. 



