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Mr. E. Heron-Allen, F.L.S., P.R.M.S., F.Z.S., described the 

 Mussel-fishery and Foramiiiifera of Esnandes (La Rochelle), and 

 the early work of Alcide d'Orbigny. 



A series of slides was exhibited illustrative of the early studies 

 of Alcide d'Orbigny at Esnandes, (near La Rochelle), and the 

 Mussel-fisheries established there since the year 1035. The 

 experiments of Prof. AV. A. Herdman on the West Coast of 

 England were referred to, and those of Prof. A. Meek at Holy 

 Island on the East Coast. A further series was shown illust- 

 rating some of the notable d'Orbignyan species found in the 

 neighbourhood, not recorded from there by d'Orbigny in 1826, 

 but recorded from other localities at that date, and from- distant 

 seas between 1839 and 1846. A third series of slides illustrated 

 well-known species from the locality which had been recorded and 

 described by earlier authors, but were not apparently identified 

 by d'Orbigny from the neighbourhood of La Rochelle. 



The next Meeting of the Society for Scientific Business will be 

 held on Tuesday, May 1st, 1917, at 5.30 p.m., when tlie fol- 

 lowing communications will be made : — 



Prof. H. Maxwell Lefroy, M.A., F.Z.S. 



Lantern Exhibition of the Wild Silk Moths of India. 



Prof. J. P. Hill, F.R.S., F.Z.S. 



Exhibition of a gyandromorphic Earwig [Forficida auricu- 

 lar ici). 



Dr. A. Smith Woodward, F.R.S., V.P.Z.S. 



Exhibition of drawings of the molar tooth of Eoantliroims. 



The Publication Committee desire to call the attention of 

 those who propose to offer Papers to the Society, to the great 

 increase in the cost of paper and printing. This will render it 

 necessary for the present that papers should be condensed, and 

 be limited so far as possible to the description of new results. 



