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varied and suggestive. Of this description was the meeting on 

 Wednesday evening last. There was not only a full attendance of 

 members, but a large number of visitors also. As regarded the 

 attendance, it was admirable to observe the success with which the 

 organisers combined variety and selectness — those two essentials 

 for a genuinely enjoyable evening party. There was, perhaps, a 

 slight drawback in the limited accommodation afforded by the 

 exhibition-room ; one required constantly to be on the alert 

 to avoid standing on the ladies' trains. The deficiency in this 

 respect, however, was to a great extent caused by the large amount 

 of space allocated to the varied and numerous collection of articles 

 displayed, including some choice and rare specimens from the three 

 kingdoms of nature— the mineral, the vegetable, and the animal. 

 The business commenced at eight o'clock, and closed at eleven, 

 and during the entire interval all present manifested unabating 

 interest and enjoyment in the entertainment. The old Museum 

 building presented the appearance on entrance of having been 

 transformed into a private mansion ; and the completeness of the 

 metamorphose, as well as of the other arrangements, reflected 

 most creditably on the taste, skill, and care of the Managing Com- 

 mittee, Dr. Moore, and Messrs. Knight, Swanston, Lockwood, 

 Robinson, and Gray, who embellished the interior of the building 

 in an ornamental and chastely artistic style with flags, evergreens, 

 and flowers. The wreaths, festoons, and emblematic devices, 

 formed from the flowers and evergreens, were peculiarly appropriate 

 and attractive. Nor should the effective assistance in the decora- 

 tive embellishments of the occasion rendered to the committee by 

 the experience and skill of Mr. Darragh, the Curator of the 

 Museum, be omitted. The large room on the first floor of the 

 building was the principal source of attraction. At one end of the 

 room a large group was formed, having illustrative reference chiefly 

 to the paper on Darwinism read before the Club on a previous 

 occasion by Mr. Robert Smith. At the base was shown the lower 

 animal forms, such as sponges, corals, and star-fishes. Above them 

 were ranged specimens of the several mollusc tribes, such as slugs, 

 oysters, and cuttlefish. Next came the worms, crabs, lobsters, 



