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explain the difference between the teeth of the three species, 
having on the table other specimens from the Museum collection, 
and also one of Meridionalis, obtained by myself (with many other 
bones of the same species) from the iron-pan of the Forest-bed at 
Mumlesley. I also emphasised in my remarks the fact that the 
Forest- bed had nothing directly to do with any forest — it was in no 
sense the bed of a forest — but was without any reasonable doubt 
an estuarine deposit — part, perhaps the extreme western edge, of 
the estuary of that mighty river which then received the water of 
the present Rhine, and of all the rivers between it and what is now 
the East Coast of Norfolk, when the county formed part of the 
Continent of Europe. 
In July, an excursion to Costessey and Eingland was much 
enjoyed by sixteen members and friends. 
After the summer vacation our first meeting was held on 
September ‘26th, when Mr. Patterson contributed “Some Summer 
Notes” from Yarmouth. Amongst other interesting occurrences 
ho alluded to the immense number of Tipulse, or Crane-flies, to be 
seen this summer. The experimental fishing trip of the “Teal” 
to the Ray of Biscay, which brought home 50 Dureys, 100 
Sea-bream, three trunks of Piper-gurnards, and 500 Hake, is 
worthy of record, as showing the character of the fish fauna of 
that region.* 
At this meeting I gave an account of my visit to the British 
Association meeting at Dover, as delegate from this Society, 
when I attended most of the lectures of the geological section, in 
addition to the meeting of the Corresponding Societies’ Committee, 
and, of course, the important opening meeting to hear the 
address of Sir Michael Foster. At the meeting of delegates, 
the Rev. T. R. R. Stebbing, F.R.S., read a paper on “ Underground 
Fauna.” There are not many representatives of this fauna in 
Britain, but I was able to inform the meeting that Dr. Harmer, 
of Cambridge, had recorded the occurrence, in Norfolk, of one 
which came under this heading, viz., the Well-shrimp ( Niphargus ). 
* The trip was not considered financially a success, and the experiment is 
not likely to be repeated. 
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