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But tlio most remarkablo feature of this our January meeting 
was the exhibition, by Mr. Christopher Davies, of a large series 
of most excellent photographs, taken by himself, and shown by 
the magic lantern. Tliese views included sixteen of Fritton Decoy, 
most valuable, as, with Mr. Davies’ description, they enabled us to 
understand how a decoy is worked. There were also views on the 
Yarn from Ihorpe to Breydon ; of the Bure and its tributaries, 
the Ant and tlie Thurne,— the Waveney and Oultou Broad ; 
several of the Norfolk Broads; and finally, a .series of Walberswick 
and the River Orwell. It is much to bo hoped that Mr. Davies 
will favour us now and then with an exhibition of views such as 
those; and I would venture to suggest how very valuable such 
series of views of the same places, taken by an agency which 
“ cannot lie ” at intervals of many years, would bo in enabling 
an estimate to bo formed of the extent of the gradual and 
minute change which is always going on around us, for the most 
part unrecorded. I think Mr. Davies’ views of our own county, 
and ]\Ir. Bidwoll’s set of the Bass Rock shown in October, are 
among the most interesting incidents of our past year. 
At our last monthly meeting Mr. Cross exhibited a small 
specimen of LoUqo from Mundcsley ; and IMr. Edwards showed 
a method of preserving spiders in spirit, set out on card in test- 
tubes, which allows better examination of the specimens than the 
ordinary method of indiscriminate bottling. Mr. A. W. Preston 
read “ ileteorological Notes for 1882 ,” which we print, and hope 
he will continue annually, as a valuable record for reference, 
j\fr. H. Woodward sent some additional notes on “ Norfolk Spas,” 
in continuation of his paper published in the last number of our 
‘ Transactions.’ j\[r. J. H. Gurney, Jun., sent some Ornithological 
Notes for North Norfolk during the past mild winter, the most 
striking of which was the record of a great migration of Golden- 
crested Wrens last October^ Mr. John Young contributed a 
capital imper, which we print, on the “Bearded Tit in confine- 
ment ; he having kept and watched this species for twelve vears. 
In addition to the papers wdiich have been read at our meetino-s, 
it is proposed to print this year “ Fauna and Flora of Norfolk, 
