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I. Changes in the Personel of the Society. 
The number of members remains the same as at the end of the last 
year — the list of newly-elected members balances our loss by resignation. 
We have to regret the loss of one corresponding member, and of three 
ordinary members, by decease. Two corresponding members have been 
elected during the year. Nearly the whole of the resignations of ordinary 
members have been occasioned by change of residence to a distance 
which renders their attendance at meetings impracticable. 
II. Papers and Discussions. 
The following tabular list shews, in a condensed form, the variety of 
subject matter which has been brought before the Society during the past 
year. We commence with the 
General Meetings. 
Name. Subject. 
Mr. Hugh Owen Description and Habits of Periopthalmus 
Papilio. 
" The Instability of Colour in the Feathers of 
Mui^ophaga violacea. 
Mr. Groom-Napier The Attractive Qualities and Food of Birds. 
Mr. Charles Ravis On two Raised Beaches at Weston-super- 
Mare. 
mun-^lted by ' Mr^'sToddan) } Malacology of Venus Casina. 
Mr. Henry K. Jordan On the Rock-boring Mollusca. 
Mr. Henry Brightman On the application of the Photograpliic 
Printing Process for producing Copies 
of Botanical and other Specimens. 
Dr. Henry Fripp On the Vision of Fishes, and on certain 
Structural Peculiarities of the Fishes' 
Eye. 
Mr. Wm. L. Carpenter Note on Pharaoh's Serpents' Eggs. 
" " Note on the Artificial Formation of Flint. 
Mr. W. W. Stoddart On Involutina Liassica. 
Rev. Gilbert N. Smith (com- \ Recent Researches in a Bone-Cave near 
municated by Mr. T. Pease) f Tenby. 
Mr. Philip J. Butler (com- 'I r^i j- /? a 
municated by Mr. Ravis) / Cloudiness of Amber. 
Mr. Groom-Napier The Horse and its Master. 
Mr. Henry K. Jordan Geological Considerations suggested by the 
Peculiar Molluscan Fauna living in the 
Littoral Zone of the Channel Isles. 
