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Various memoranda relating to Fishes have been brought before 
us by Mr. A. Patterson, whose Yarmouth Votes form a prominent 
feature at our meetings. He mentioned (September 27th) that 
a Sturgeon, weighing about 110 lbs., was stranded last -I tine on the 
mud-flats of Breydon. 
Mr. Hamon le Strange sent a note (November 29th) on the 
occurrence of Pay’s Bream, l>rama rayi, in Norfolk ; it was washed 
ashore last October on Hunstanton beach after a heavy gale, and 
was picked up alive. At our last meeting Mr. Southwell continued 
his valuable “Notes on the Herring Fishery,” giving us the 
particulars for 1892. 
Turning to the humbler orders of animals, I should mention 
that Mr. Patterson exhibited (September 27th) a small Crustacean, 
Eurydice pulchra, from Breydon. 
On the subject of Insects, Dr. Wheeler recorded (September 27th) 
the finding last summer, and in some abundance, of the Moth, 
Meliana Jlammca , at Panworth and elsewhere ; while Mr. J. 
Edwards (February 28th) sent a list of Norfolk Coleoptcra, that 
will form a valuable feature in our ‘Transactions.’ “Notes on 
Norfolk Slugs" were contributed by Mr. A. Mayfield (January 31st); 
and he pointed out that the Broad district offered a good field for 
further observations on this neglected section of the Mollusca. 
Botany has received every attention in its recent aspect from 
Mr. Geldart; while Mr. Clement Peid (September 27th and 
January 31st) has sent Notes on New Fossil Seeds from the 
Cromer Forest Beil. This subject naturally leads into the domain 
of Geology, and to the mention of a memoir of Caleb B. Pose, 
communicated (February 28th; by myself. On the same evening 
Mr. A. W. Preston sent his Meteorological Notes for 1892, thus 
completing in an appropriate manner our yearly record of facts and 
phenomena. 
I should not omit, however, to express our obligations to 
Mr. Geldart, Mr. E. Corder, Mr. Mottram, Mr. Waddington (of 
the Quekett Microscopical Club), and to our Secretary, for the 
exhibition of microscopic and other objects. 
The Society has to lament the loss, during the past session, of 
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