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species had been in countless numbers near Beachy Head 

 this year, and had been much rehshed by the sheep feeding 

 on the Downs. 



Mr. G. K. Gude, F.Z.S., exhibited about a hundred species 

 of shells from the Philippine Islands, belonging to the genera 

 Cochlostyla, Chlorcea, Rhyssota, Hcmipleda, Heinitrichia, and 

 Macfochlamys. 



Mr. J. T. Carrington exhibited a very fine collection of 

 British land shells, especially collected to show the range of 

 variation ; among others may" be particularly mentioned the 

 series of Helix pontatia, L., H. hortensis, Mull., and if. inemo- 

 ralis, L. ; a number of South European land shells found by 

 himself in the Riviera ; and a small collection of fresh-water 

 shells from Lake Manitoba. 



Mr. F. P. Perks exhibited living British fresh-water snails 

 with explanatory sketches and diagrams, as well as a large 

 living South American Ampullaria. 



Mr. R. A. Adkins exhibited varieties of British land-shells, 

 including Helix virgata, Da Cos., with unusually raised spire, 

 and H. ericetoruni, Miill., brown forms, from Eastbourne, 

 H. elegans, from Dover, and Cyclostoma elegans, Miill., 

 rosy and mottled forms from Reigate, also Clansilia ntgosa, 

 Drap., from Shetland. 



Crustacea. 



Mr. W. Manger exhibited cases of British and Foreign 

 Crustacea, including some very curious specimens from 

 Weymouth, which were dredged, and not very common. 

 Ocypode ctLvsor, from West Coast of Africa, a rare thing 

 with a pencil of stiff hairs on the end of the eye-stalks ; also 

 small Crustacea from the Red Sea, which were very curious 

 and uncommon. 



Ornithology. 



Mr. C. A. Briggs, F.E.S., exhibited two specimens of the 

 egg of the crested lark, Alanda cristata, from Romney Marsh, 

 1895 ; two eggs of the golden eagle, Aquila chrysai'tos, L., 

 from Ardrossan, N.B., 1893; ^-^^ ^ ^^-se of four stuffed 

 specimens of the little auk, Mergtdus alle, L., from Cam- 

 bridgeshire, taken during the great frost of 1895. 



Mr. H. Mead Briggs exhibited a pseudo-albino variety of 

 the common sparrow, Passer domcsticus, L., shot at Canter- 

 bury, Dec. 6th, 1894, 3^nd two cases of stuffed stoats and 

 squirrels from Kent, all mounted by the exhibitor. 



