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GENEEAL. 



rpiUEllE have boon eight General Mcctmga of the Society 

 ■J- during the past Session; all held in University 

 College, a,t 8 p.m. 



On Thursday, October lat, 1885, Professor C. Lloyd 

 Morgan, F.G.S., read a paper on Animal Iniolligencc. This 

 has been published in Mind (Vol. xi., No. 4'2, April, 1886). 



On November 5th, Mr. Thomas Morgans, C.E., gave a 

 lecture on Local Term-cotta Olayn and Froductn, illustrated 

 by various instructive specimens of local production, lie 

 stated that the Coal Measure Clays were the most valu- 

 able of all for the manufacture of terra- cotta; and that 

 immense deposits of those existed in the neighbourhood 

 of Ih'Istol. Good ware is strong, impermeable, and veiy 

 durable ; and prolonged exposure to weatlier or to the 

 action of sea-water, etc., has I'euiarkably little effect upon 

 it. Articles can be made of almost any size and shape, 

 and the colour can be varied almost infinitely by the 

 addition of different nretallic oxides, and the employment 

 of various modilications of the baking process. The surface, 

 also, will take a good polish. 



At the meeting on December 3rd, a resolution was adopted 



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