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the protection of sheep and oxen against this virulent disease. 
Unfortunately this lecture was delivered without notes, and we 
have no means of publishing in our ‘Transactions’ what would 
have been one of the best papers of our year. Mr. Plowright 
delivered an address to the Norfolk Agricultural Society in 
February last on “ Mildew in Wheat,” to which the members of 
our Society Avere kindly invited : this address being given on a 
Saturday, many of our members interested in the subject Avere 
unable to attend. 
At the September meeting Mr. Preston read “Notes of a Walking 
Tour in the West Eiding of Yorkshire,” and described the plants 
Avhich he had found there ; and Mr. Harmer exhibited a set of 
photographs of the scenery of the Eiviera, and described the 
fioAvers which he had found during his residence there last spring, 
Avith the help of the illustrations to Mr. Moggridge’s beautiful 
‘ Plora of Mentone.’ 
At the October meeting, Mr. SoutliAvell described the animals 
and birds he had met Avith in a visit to the valley of the Upper 
Engadine ; and l\Ir. Edward BidAvell sent for exhibition a fine set 
of photographs of the Bass Eock, showing the breeding places of 
the Gannets. 
In November a letter Avas read from Mr. Marsham, calling 
attention to the extraordinary rainfall of last October, as compared 
Avith that of the same month of former years. The greatest 
rainfall in twenty-four hours ever registered by Mr. INIarsham was 
on the 22nd October, 1882, viz. U45 inch. Mr. Davies showed 
some photographs of the SAvan-pit at the Great Hospital. Mr. 
Stevenson read a paper on the Dusky Sheanvater; and exhibited a 
specimen Avhich was picked up dead at Earsham in 1858, and Avhich 
Avas the first specimen of this species ever found in Great Britain. 
Mr. SouthAvell exhibited and described a specimen of the Sooty 
Shearwater, which he obtained alive at Lynn in 1851, and 
which he recorded at that time as an immature specimen of the 
Great ShearAvater : the renaming of this specimen causes an alteration 
in the list of Norfolk birds by the substitution of Paffinus griscus 
for Pafinus major. Mr. Horace Woodward read a paper on “ The 
