CONTENTS. 
List of Officers ----- y 
List of Members ----- vi 
Statement of Accounts - - - - yiii 
Publications received - • - - ix 
President’s Address - - - - 1 
I. Notes on Collecting Lepidoptera in Norfolk, 1878, 
by F. D, Wheeler, M.A., Hon. Sec. - - 28 
II. On Hawking near Yarmouth, by Alfred Newton, 
M.A, F.R.S., Hon. Mem. - - - 34 
III. Discovery of Remains of Emys lutaria in the 
Mundesley River-bed, by Hoi-ace B. Woodward, 
F.G.S. 36 
IV. Notes on the Life and Writings of Edward Blyth, 
by H. D. Geldart, V.P. - - - 38 
V. The Shiant Islands and their Bird Life, by J. A. 
Harvie-Brown, F.Z.S., M.B.O.U. - - 47 
VI. Sketch of the Geology and Mineralogy of the Shiant 
Islands, by Professor M. Forster Heddle, M.D. 
(President of the Mineralo^cal Society of Great 
Britain), communicated by J. A. Harvie-Brown 61 
VII. Natural History Notes, by Frank Norgate (communi- 
cated by the Honorary Secretary) - - 68 
VIII. Remarks on the Geology of Gorton (read on the 
occasion of the Society’s visit to J. J. Colman, 
Esq., M P., of that place), by F. W. Harmer, 
F.G.S., Ex-President - - - - 71 
IX. Some Notes on Hawking, as formerly practised in 
Norfolk, by J. E. Harting, F.L.S., F.Z.S. - 79 
X. On the Occurrence of the Deal-fish on the Norfolk 
Coast, by Thomas Southwell, F.Z.S., President 95 
XI. On the Abundance of Pomatorhine and smaller 
Skuas on the Norfolk Coast in October and 
November, 1879, by H. Stevenson, F.L.S., V.P. 99 
XII. Ornithological Notes for 1878 (Supplementary to 
those published in last year’s ‘Transactions’), 
by Henry Stevenson, F.L.S., V.P. - - 120 
XIII. Ornithological Notes for 1879, by Henry Stevenson 
F.L.S., V.P. - - - - - 125 
XIV. Notes on the Meteorological Observations recorded 
at Norwich during the year 1879, by John 
(Quinton, Jun., Assistant-Secretary (Registrar 
to the Norwich Meteorological Society) - 140 
XV. Miscellaneous Notes, and Observations - - 149 
