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RE-ELECTION OF OFFICEES. On the motion of Mr. G. GALPIN, seconded by 

 Mr. H. J. MOULE, the President, Treasurer, and Secretary were unanimously 

 re-elected. 



EXHIBITS AND NOTES. 



BY THE PRESIDENT : 



1. Some flints imbedded in the root of an elm tree through its growth around 

 them. 



2. A cluster of five cones of Pin us Pinaster. 



BY CAPTAIN RICKABDS : 



3. A Bronze Weight dug up on the site of the " old burnt house " at Drayton 

 Manor House, 7 miles from Windsor. This house was a Religious House and 

 under the administration of the Bishop of London. It was said to have been the 

 largest house in the county of Middlesex, and was destroyed by fire in the six- 

 teenth century. 



Professor Drury, of the Edinburgh Museum, writes thus of this weight : 

 " I think the bronze specimen an excellent sample of a very early practice, the 

 desire to keep current weights up to the standard value ; in our time this is done 

 by dropping lead into a hollow left in the underside of the weight. This may 

 have been a standard of weight in use over a wide area belonging to the distin- 

 guished families whose ' bearings ' are represented on it. These are four in 

 number. The ' Lions ' are not Scottish, the other two, the ' double headed Eagle ' 

 and the three ' Leopards,' are not, if I remember right, confined to England. 

 The ornamentation is interesting as having been current in the 13th century." 



4. An example of the Roman (bronze) Sword, found at either Burgh Castle or 

 Colchester, I am not quite certain which, and bought at the famous sale of 

 Sir Edwin Smith's collection. (Sir E. S. was founder and first President of the 

 Linnsean Society.) 



BY REV. R. USHEB : 



5. A robin's nest built inside an old metal teapot which had been thrown away 

 and lay at the foot of a briar-bush. 



BY ME. R. SLATEE : 



6. Clypeaster Aegyptiacus a fossil sea urchin found in the Libyan Desert in a 

 sandstone deposit, some twelve miles south-west of Cairo. 



Presented to the Museum. 



BY REV. W. R. WAUGH : 



7. A black letter New Testament translated into English by Theodore Beza 

 with expositions and concordance. Date 1583. In the original binding re -backed. 



BY MR. E. CUNNINGTQN : 



8. An old engraving of Mr. John Love, "the fatest and heaviest man ever 

 known in England." 



