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not even getting the full benefit of the recent increase in staff; 

 for in the work on the zoological collections this year we have 

 constantly had to abandon plans and put up with makeshifts 

 because money was not forthcoming for purposes which in 

 most other museums are treated as matters of necessity. 



E. Leonard Gill. 



EVENING MEETINGS HELD DURING THE WINTER 



SESSION, 1907-1908 



Nov. 13.— Mr. W. H. Young, F.L.S., F.Z.S. : '"Dragons of the 

 Prime ' : Some Recent Discoveries in America and Egypt " ; 

 chair taken by Mr. R. Coltman Clephan, F.S.A. 



Dec. II.— Mr. John Davidson: "An Angler's Trip to the Faroe 

 Islands " ; chair taken by Mr. John Harbottle. 



Jan. 8. —Rev. Arthur Watts, F.G.S. : "Glimpses of tlie Early History 

 of the Earth"; chair taken by Mr. J. Alaric Richardson. 



Feb. 12.— Rev. J. E. Hull, M.A, : "The Life History of a Spider"; 

 chair taken by Mr. Jos. G. Angus. 



Mar. II.— Mr. B. Amsden, B.A., B.Sc, LL.B. : " Spring Flowers " ; 

 chair taken by Mr. Wilfred Hall. 



Mar. 19. — Private Evening Meeting of the Society : Report on Field 

 Meetings of the summer of 1 907, by Mr. J. Alaric Richardson, 

 Chairman of Field Meetings Committee ; reading by Miss Florence 

 Hodgson of her Hancock Prize Essay, "An Autumn Walk in 

 Tynedale." 



AFTERNOON LECTURES TO CHILDREN 



Dec. 27.— Prof Henry Louis, M.A. : "The Malay Peninsula and its 

 Inhabitants " ; chair taken by Sir Walter Plummer. 



Jan. 3. — Dr. H. F. Standing: "Fact and Fable from Madagascar"; 

 chair taken by Mr. E. J. J. Browell. 



