128 EARLY DAYS OF DARWINISM 



Lydia Becker. On some Unnoticed Points in the 

 Theory of Sexual Selection as applied to Entpzoa. 



5 Prof. Mivart. On Dimorphism in the Common Frog. 



6 Prof. Huxley. On Man as an Automaton. 



7 Sir J. Lubbock. On the Inability of Bees to avail themselves 

 of Bank Holidays. 



8 Cardinal Manning. On Certain Fallacies in Our Estimate 

 of the Intelligence of the Lower Animals. 



9 Captain Lawson.* Exhibition of Zoological Specimens col- 



lected in New Guinea. 

 10 Dr. Quackenhosh (of Chicago). On the Colorado Beetle.* 



* Living examples of this destructive animal will be ex- 

 hibited in the adjoining room in charge of the Quarantine 

 ofgcers of the Fort of Bristol. 



N.B. — ^The papers bracketed will be taken together. 



Forty years ago, not less than at the present time, 

 the members of the Association attended feasts and 

 functions in the various towns they visited. An amusing 

 incident occurred at the opening of the meeting at 

 Brighton — 



The funniest thing I witnessed was Sclat'er being taken 

 for Louis Napoleon the first night and received by the 

 Mayor, gold chain and all, with " How many seats does 

 your Imperial Majesty want ? " His worship, it should 

 be said, had dined ! Sclater with great presence of 

 mind presented Tristram as the Emperor, whereon the 

 Mayor got furious and turned to me with " Who are these 

 persons ? " It should be added that we drove up in the 

 Rowley carriage, rather a swell affair, to the platform 

 entrance, and young Rowley who had gone on first, when 

 the carriage stopped, exclaimed, " There they are," 

 meaning us ; but the Mayor, etc., thinking " they " could 

 only mean the illustrious exiles, hurried out to meet us, 

 and altogether it was exceedingly comical. 



In the 'seventies Newton was a regular attendant 



* Capt. J. A. Lawson, " Wanderings in New Guinea," 1875. Claimed 

 to have climbed in a few hours to 25,314 ft. of "Mt. Hercules," 

 32,783 ft. He met herds of wild oxen, troops of monkeys, and tigers of 

 great size. 



