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THE GEOLOGIST. 
Hawkshaw, F.G.S. ; Eaton Hodgkinson, F.R.S. ; J. R. Lin- 
gard j Dr. Lyon ; John Moore_, F.L.S. ; H. M. Ormerod; Rev. 
Eobt. Wallace ; George W. Wood, M.P., F.G.S. 
SCIENTIFIC SOCIETY OF LONDON. 
October 5tli, 1843. The fifth session of this Society was opened 
this evening, George Alexander, Esq., F.S.A. V.P. in the chair. 
The Secretary read a memoir, by James Buckman, Esq., " On 
a specimen of Ichthyosaurus tenuirostris" found by him in the 
neighbourhood of Bredon, Gloucestershire," and which was ren- 
dered remarkable by the excessive size of the orbit of the eye — 
the paucity of teeth — the coprolitic matter with which it was 
surrounded, and withal the beautiful preservation of the whole 
upper portion — we alluded to the discovery of this rare speci- 
men in our last May number (vol. i. p. 163). The coprolitic 
matter did not assume the usual contorted or rolled form, but 
filled the instertices between the ribs, and extended a consi- 
derable distance around the lower portion of the animal — and 
evidenced that the unmasticated food of which it was formed 
had not passed through the intestinal canal at the period of the 
destruction of the animal, whilst the small number of teeth, and 
more especially the size of the eye, denoted it at once to be a 
young specimen — the latter being only a trifle larger in the 
adult than in the young state of any vertebrate animal. 
Oct. 19, 1843. George Alexander, Esq., F.S.A. and V.P. 
in the chair ; and Nov. 3, 1843, Charles Moxon, Esq., Trea- 
surer, in the chair. The meetings on both occasions were occu- 
pied by an essay " On Electrotype," by Thomas Damant Eaton, 
Esq. 
Nov. 16th, 1843. The sixth anniversary meeting was held 
this evening, A. Marshall, Esq., in the chair. After the usual 
