PROCEEDINGS 
OF THE 
MARCH, 1866. 
GENERAL MEETING. 
Thursday, March 1. — Mr. W. Sanders, F.R.S., President, in 
the chair. 
The Hon. Reporting Secretary said that, in accordance with a desire 
that had been for some time expressed by various members, the experiment 
had been made of printing the Proceedings of the Society in a more per- 
manent form than that of the newspaper slips. He laid copies on the 
table, pointed out the advantages of the plan, furnished estimates of the 
probable increase of cost, and gave notice that the Council would be pre- 
pared with a recommendation upon the subject, at the April meeting. In 
the mean time, he invited expressions of opinion on the matter, from all 
members interested. 
The Hon. Secretary announced donations to the Society's Library of 
half a guinea from the Botanical Section, and one guinea, with a volume 
of the Geological Magazine, from the Geological Section. 
Mr. W. W. Stoddart exhibited a piece of bamboo cane, which had 
been buried in the earth, and then incinerated, showing casts of the 
siliceous cells in the plant, hanging together in a remarkable manner. He 
also read an extract from a letter of the Rev. G. N. Smith, in reference to 
that gentleman's account of researches in a bone cave at Tenby, read at 
the previous meeting, from which it appeared that, though the bones of 
the bear, &c, were found underneath the undisturbed stalagmite, and were 
therefore very old, the flint flakes were not, and hence there were no data 
for determining the age of these. 
