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from the Bristol Museum, and an Aymara cast from Edinburgh, the 
former very short and with very small occipital and post-parietal develop- 
ment, the latter rather long, and neither bearing marks of great compression 
in any part, though the posterior flatness of the former one appeared 
to bepartly induced by pressure. A very good specimen of the long 
roof-shaped Eskimo skull, with broad cheekbones and lozenge face was 
next examined, and then an Ashanti one and a good specimen of an 
Australian, with frowning brows and deep nasal notch. "With some remarks 
on a particularly fine Maori skull, exhibiting in a marked manner the 
Polynesian characteristic of prominent parietal bosses, Dr. Beddoe concluded 
his discourse. 
SECTIONAL MEETINGS. 
At the Annual Meetings of the various Sections, held in January, the 
Officers were re-elected, and the ordinary business transacted. 
THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SECTION 
has, during the past quarter, been chiefly occupied in exhibitions of local 
specimens, and in perfecting, as far as possible, the first part of a list of the 
Lepidoptera of the Bristol District, now in course of preparation by Mr. E. 
Hudd, assisted by other members of the section. 
THE BOTANICAL SECTION 
has continued its labours in mounting specimens for the Society's local 
Herbarium ; and at the January Meeting the Hon. Secretary, Mr. Yabbicom, 
made a communication on "The Mural Plants of the District," enumerating 
and discussing 37 species of Phanerogamic Plants. 
No reports have yet been received from the Geological and Zoological 
Sections. 
DONATIONS TO THE LIBRARY. 
Preliminary Report, by Dr. W. B. Carpenter, V.P.R.S., of Dredging 
Operations, presented by the Author. 
Entomological Magazine, 2 Vols., and The Entomologist, 1 Vol., presented 
by the Entomological Section. 
Zoological Record, Vol. iv., presented by the Zoological Section. 
Notes on the Palseozoic Bivalved Entomostraca, by Prof. T. Rupert Jones 
F.G.S., and Dr. H. B. Holl, F.G.S., presented by the Authors. 
