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[Proc. B. N. F. C, 



WINTER SESSION. 



Note. — The authors of the various Papers, of which abstracts are here appended, are 

 alone responsible for the views expressed in them. 



SOCIAL MEETING. 



HE twenty-sixth Winter Session was inaugurated on 

 the evening of the 6th November, by a social meeting 

 in the Museum, College Square North. Tea was 

 served in the lower room by the lady members. 



Shortly after eight o'clock, the chair was taken by the Presi- 

 dent — Hugh Robinson, Esq., M.R.I.A. — who said that about 

 six months ago the Club celebrated the completion of its 

 twenty-five years of existence by a conversazione, held in the 

 same room in which the Club had been started a quarter of a 

 century before. Although technically the twenty-sixth year 

 began with the first excursion last May, yet they might look 

 upon this social meeting as in some sort the commencement of 

 their second quarter of a century. He hoped that at the end of 

 that term their jubilee celebration would find them in as 

 flourishing a condition as they were now, and that many of the 



