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Marl Staitho, which in consequence of the unpropitious weather 
was very thinly attended. 
Amongst tlie printed papers will be found two on “ Hawking in 
Norfolk one by Professor Newton, and the other by !Mr. J. E. 
Harting. This is a. subject of more than local interest, and has been 
ably treated in each instance. A very interesting paper has also 
been contributed by Mr. H. D. Geldart, on the “ Life and Works of 
Edward lUyth,” a name familiar to most of us through the jingcs of 
the ‘ Zoologist,’ and the ‘ Proceedings of the Zoological Society.’ 
IMr. Geldart called especial attention to a paper published by Blyth 
in the ‘Magazine of Natural History’ for 1835, which seems to 
have attracted very little attention cither ,at the time of its pub- 
lication or since, and in which, like the elder Darwin, he ha.s 
anticipated to a remarkable extent the views since elaborated by 
Charles Darwin and Wallace, as to variation in animals by Natural 
and Sexual Selection. 
The Honorary Secretary gave us an account of his work amojigst 
the Lopidoptora during the season of 1878, which will be read 
with interest. 
Mr. Harvie-Brown’s paper on “Bird Life in the Shiant Islands," 
and Dr. Ileddlc’s on the “ Geology and i\Iineralogy ’’ of the same 
islands, will bo read Avith interest both by ornithologists and 
geologists. Wo also print the usual ornithological summary by 
Mr. Stevenson, and the meteorological report by l\Ir. Quinton, 
both of which forming continuous records now extending over 
cloven years are especially valuable. The tenth section of the 
fauna and flora of the county, which will consist of the birds, wc 
are compelled for want of space to defer till next year. 
Of the shorter papers I would call especial attention to that on 
the occurrence of Eniys hitnria in the river-bed at ^fundesley, by 
Mr. H. B. Woodward, and to Mr. Plowright’s discovery of two 
magiiilicent fungi at Brandon, viz., Boletus suIpJiureus and 
HelvclUx xnfula ,• the only other British locality of these two fine 
species being at Kothiemurchus in Inverness-shire, where, as at 
Brandon, they are also associated. 
The months of June, July, and August, have this year, for the 
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