CONTENTS. 



SESSION" 1865-6 6. 

 November 22, 1865. 



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Page (David), President's Opening Address : — Man's Place in the 



Geological Record, ...... 313 



December 27, 1865. 

 Office-Bearers elected, . . . . . . 330 



I. Turner (William), M.B., exhibited two specimens of the Ler- 

 neopoda elongata attached to the eyes of the Greenland 

 Shark (Scymnus borealis), .... 331 



II. (J.) Smith (John Alex.), M.D., exhibited perfect specimens of the 

 new Ganoid Fish, Calamoichthys Calabaricus, from Old 

 Calabar, ...... 331 



(2.) Smith (John Alex.), M.D., exhibited several of our rarer 

 British Birds — Grus cinerea (Common Crane), Lanius 

 excubitor (Great Grey Shrike), Picus major (Great 

 Spotted Woodpecker), Thalassidroma pelagica (Stormy 

 Petrel), Bombycilla garrula (Bohemian Waxwing), 

 Astur palumbarius (Goshawk) — and Birds showing 

 accidental varieties in plumage, . . . 332 



(3.) Smith (Dr), noticed the recent capture of the Labrus 



bergylta (Ballan Wrasse), near Cellardykes, . 335 



III. M'Nab (W. R.), exhibited several species of Coleoptera, which 



had been recently collected in Egypt by Professor Piazzi 

 Smith, . . . . . 335 



IV. White (Adam), exhibited two boxes of interesting Lepidop- 



terous and Hymenopterous insects, . "■ . 335 



January 24, 1866. 

 I. Brodie (Rev. James), Monimail, An Inquiry into the Action of 

 the Natural Agencies by which Level Terraces are produced, 

 and into the proofs thereby afforded that the elevation of the 



