president’s address. 
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Sr opel us mulleri and the Four-bearded Bock ling. Mr. Southwell 
exhibited also, at the October meeting, what is known as a 
“ Double Turbot,” sent also by Mr. Patterson. 
Mr. Patterson’s interesting notes on fishes observed by him in his 
beach rambles at Great Yarmouth have already been referred to 
under the head of ornithology. 
Only two communications were devoted to the Mollusca. Lord 
Walsingham’s paper on an abnormal species of Pholas Candida , one 
of the Bivalve Mollusks, was read in tho month of January. Some 
letters of Dr. Goodall, Provost of Eton, to Lady "Walsingham, 
written as long ago as 1S22, on this variety, were appended to the 
paper, and though more than half-a-century old, were highly 
instructive, Dr. Goodall having been one of the best conchologists 
of his day. 
Mr. Edwards, in tho month of April, exhibited three species ot 
Mollusca, new to the English list, viz., a Physa and two Vertigos. 
Mr. Geldart’s eloquent and truly scientific lecture on the 
Pycnogonkhe, illustrated by diagrams on the black-board, gave 
us a very clear and lucid insight into the minute anatomy and 
physiology of these tiny Arachnidians. Notwithstanding the 
difficulty and abstruseness of tho subject, Mr. Geldart’s remarks 
were listened to with rapt attention by his hearers. 
There were only two contributions in Entomology. Mr. 
Bridgman, however, is a host in himself, so that his admirable 
paper on Hymenoptera atones in no small measure for the meagre 
number of communications on this highly important branch of 
natural history. Still it seems a pity more attention is not 
bestowed upon the subject, considering how deleterious to the 
material interests of mankind are not a few members of the class 
Insecta. 
In September Mr. Bidwell exhibited a specimen of Bombyx 
pernyi, a caterpillar used in China for producing silk. They are 
described as being very beautiful, and not difficult to rear, feeding 
freely on the English Oak. 
Our botanical members have, with one or two exceptions, been 
resting on their oars during the past year. Let us hope the 
