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thanks were then proposed and carried with acclamation to Mr. 
Kirkby and Mr. Howse for their expositions of the geological 
features of the coast, and to Mr. Norman and Mr. Bold for their 
papers, as well as to the indefatigable Secretary, Mr. Mennell, for 
his services, and the large meeting broke up amidst mutual con- 
gratulations on the successful close of the campaign. I am not 
aware that any novelties were added to our local fauna on the 
occasion, or any rarities noticed; indeed, the lateness of the season 
and the previous inclement weather almost preciuded the possi- 
bility of this occurring. 
Turning from the out-of-door doings of this unfavourable 
season. to those which have been held in the rooms of the Lite- 
rary and Philosophical Society, I may mention that a fourth 
evening meeting of last session was held on Thursday evening, 
the 12th of April, when a paper “on the British Marine Alge,” 
with notices of some of the rarer local specimens, by Mr. George 8. 
Brady, was read. This, with modifications so as to convert it into 
a local list, has since appeared in our Transactions, and it is barely 
doing it and its talented author justice to say that it forms one 
of the most valuable contributions that has yet been made to our 
acta. May we hope, that with such an example before them, 
others of our body will take up the other departments of our 
cryptogamic flora. This was followed by a paper “ on Climate,” by 
Mr. John Watson, F.R.A.S., who has devoted so much attention 
to meteorology, and was illustrated by diagrams. Mr. Mennell 
read a paper entitled “‘ Notes on the Rainfall of 1859,’ which is 
already in the hands of our members. Mr. J. W. Kirkby then 
read a most valuable paper ‘“ on the Permian Chitonide,” which, 
with additions and corrections, has been reprinted in our Tran- 
sactions from the “ Quarterly Journal of Geological Science.” 
On the evening of the last anniversary, March the 29th, 1860, 
another Microscoricat Sorree was held in the Museum of the 
Natural History Society, in connection with that Society and our 
Club, equally attractive and interesting, and upon a more exten- 
sive scale than its predecessor. No fewer than 36 microscopes 
were arranged on the table, many of them being instruments of 
first-rate quality, with every appliance which the most recent 
