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as the Curator may desire to add. I refrain from dealing 

 with the specimens in detail, as when Professor Meek com- 

 pletes his investigation he has undertaken to contribute the 

 history of the expedition and its results for preservation in 

 the transactions of the Club. 



Votes of thanks to Professor Meek and Mr. Gibson ended 

 an enjoyable afternoon. 



Evening Meetings. 



During the winter the usual series of Evening Meetings, six 

 in number, have been held in conjunction with the Natural 

 History Society. At the first of these meetings on October 

 22nd, under the chairmanship of the Rev. J. M. Hick, the 

 Rev. A. Watts, F.G.S., read a paper on " Some New Sinkings 

 at Derwenthaugh," describing a series of borings made by the 

 Consett Iron Company, and drawing interesting conclusions 

 from the nature of the glacial drift and the contour of the 

 underlying rock-head. The Curator of the Museum, Mr. E. L, 

 Gill, exhibited a few specimens, and read some notes on birds 

 observed during the autumn. 



On November 19th, with Professor Potter in the chair, the 

 Rev. W. J. Wingate read a paper entitled " Life on a Window 

 Pane." He reviewed briefly, with the aid of a large number 

 of diagrams, the families of British Diptera, and appealed for 

 recruits to the study of this much neglected order, and to 

 make such study easier Mr. Wingate is presenting his own 

 collection to the Museum, so that it may be available as a 

 help in the difficult work of identification. 



At the third meeting on December loth, with your President 

 in the chair, the Rev. R. Stewart Wright delivered a lecture 

 on "The Habits and Customs of the Amambwe of Lake 

 Tanganyika," illustrated by the collection of native imple- 

 ments presented to the Museum by the lecturer himself. The 

 lecture was a remarkably interesting one, and all who were 

 present regretted that it was so poorly attended. At the close 

 of the lecture the Rev. J. M. Hick exhibited and explained a 



