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‘ 1 ransactions. ’ Mr. Cresswell was a born Naturalist and sportsman ; 
and although unfortunately he could never be induced to commit 
to paper tlie results of his many years’ experience in sea fishing and 
wild-fowl shooting, ho was always most ready to impart information 
to those who sought it For many years, in conjunction with the 
late Harry Hornigold, who had long been his foithful and attached 
servant in all matters relating to yachting and gunning, Mr. Cresswell 
had very successfully pursued a very curious method of taking fowl 
by moans of stake nets set along the shore just above high-water 
mark; and those who have seen the charming cage of waders in the 
fish-houso at the Zoological Gardens, probably owe to ]Mr. Cresswell 
the opportunity of studying such birds as Knots and Dunlins in 
coiiHnement, for birds taken alive in his nets were fre.iuently sent 
to that institution. In Jlr. Dawson liowloy’s ‘Ornithological 
Miscellany ’ for J uly, 1877 (pp. 354-373) will be found an account 
of Mr. Crosswell’s system of netting, with some excellent illustra- 
tions. Mr. Cresswell’s genial manners and kindly disposition had 
endeared him to all avIio knew him; but amongst the fishing 
population, whose interests and welfare had always been hil 
peculiar care, it will be long before the genuine regret at the loss of 
so kind a friend, so forcibly expressed by their numerous atten- 
dance at his funeral, will pass aw'ay.” 
At our first meeting, in April, Mr. G. Christopher Davies exhibited 
a series of photographs of Decoys, which were explained by 
hlr. Southwell : this was only the first of a series of exhibitions 
of pliotographic views taken by Mr. Davies which he has shown 
tliis year, and to which we shaU have to allude again. At the 
second meeting, in May, Mr. C. B. Plowright delivered a lecture on 
“Fermentation, Putrefaction, and Zymotic Disease,” illustrated by 
diagrams. After pointing out the relationship wliich exists between 
those phenomena, ho described particularly the researches of Koch 
on blood poisoning, and his discovery of the Bacillus which accom- 
panies consumption. Mr. Plowright also described the BaciUus of 
anthrax and the experiments of Pasteur, by which were demon- 
strated the possibility of cultivating an attenuated state of the 
anthrax microbe, which could be used as an inoculating medium for 
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