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whether the implements could be the work of man, because 

 they are found over so large an area near Amiens and Abbe- 

 ville and under similar circumstances elsewhere. 



Dr. Falconer stated that, after he had left Italy, Baron 

 Francesco had explored a new ossiferous cave, Ben Fratello, 

 near Aquadolce, which contained, together with the bones 

 of large herbivora such as he (the speaker) had found, 

 those of several carnivora, the identification of which 

 might, he hoped, be helpful in determining the age of these 

 deposits. 



June 2ist, i22nd meeting. Colonel Sir H. James said 

 he had learnt that the process of photozincography had 

 been independently invented by Mr. Taylor, a member of the 

 Australian Geological Survey. 



A letter from M. de Verneuil 1 was read, giving reasons 

 against the proposed division of the collection in the British 

 Museum, and showing how space could be gained by a 

 rearrangement. Professor Huxley stated that, in giving 

 evidence before the Parliamentary Committee, he had dwelt 

 strongly on this point. 



Professor Frankland exhibited a new chemical compound, 

 which he had recently obtained. It consisted of boron 

 and ethyle, the latter standing in the same relation to the 

 former as the oxygen in boracic acid, and might be named 

 borethyle. Its composition was boron 10 per cent., 

 carbon 75, and hydrogen 15. It ignites spontaneously on 

 coming in contact with air, and burns with a green flame. 



Oct. 25th, I23rd meeting. Dr. Daubeny said that he 

 had repeated M. Pouchet's experiments on solutions which 

 had been subjected to high temperatures and accessible only 

 to air that had passed through a red-hot tube. In these 

 also low forms of vegetation had appeared. 



Professor W. A. Miller described the success of Bunsen 



1 Philippe-Eduard Poulletier de Verneuil (1805-1873), born and died 

 in Paris, devoted his time and fortune to the study of Geology and Palaeon- 

 tology. He travelled extensively from the Ural Mountains to the United 

 States of America, studying more especially the Palaeozoic rocks in these 

 regions and in the intermediate countries of Europe, including Spain and 

 Great Britain. 



