president’s address. 
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Museum of Zoology and other Scientific Departments of the 
University, and spent the afternoon in visiting some of the 
Colleges. 
On September 11th the Committee met to consider a letter 
from Lord Walsingham to your lion. Secretary, asking for the 
co operation of the Society in an attempt to re-introduce the Great 
Bustard into a district on the borders of the Norfolk Fens, formerly 
one of its favourite haunts in this country. I need hardly inform 
you that this attempt met with the cordial approval of the 
Committee, who thereupon issued a circular to the Norfolk County 
Council, the West Suffolk County Council, and the more important 
land-owners of the district in question, inviting them to take steps 
to avoid the destruction of the birds. 
Mr. F. 1). Longe has communicated to us papers on “ A piece of 
Yew from the Forest-bed, apparently cut by Man,” and “ Flints.” 
Our President-elect has read a paper on the use of the Teasel in 
Manufactures. From the Hon. Secretary we have had a paper on 
the Nitrification of Soil. Professor Newton has sent us his 
notes on the occurrence of bones of the Crane in the Fens ; and 
Mr. T. Southwell has supplemented this by communications on 
the nesting of the Crane and the Curlew in East Anglia. 
Mr. J. II. Gurney has shown us a photograph of the nestlings 
of the Bearded Tit ; while other communications relating to 
Vertebrates have been — Mr. A. Patterson’s notes on Birds and 
Fishes at Yarmouth; Mr. E. J. H. Eldred’s notes on Swifts; 
the Rev. M. C. H. Bird’s papers on Vipers in Norfolk, and on Birds’ 
Eggs and Nests; a note of my own on some markings on the skin 
of a Dolphin, as well as the usual reports on the Herring Fishery 
and on the recent additions to the Castle-Museum; Mr. W. II. Tuck’s 
exhibition of a photograph of the nest of a Parakeet ; and that by 
Mr. E. T. Roberts of a variety of the Great Tit. Invertebrates 
have been represented by the exhibition of Norfolk specimens of 
Macrogaster annul inis and Nonagria brevilinea by Dr. F. D. 
Wheeler, and of the Longicorn Molorchus minor by Mr. H. J. 
Thouless ; by communications from Mr. W. H. Tuck on Aculeate 
Hymenoptera, and Mr. H. E. Hurrell on the Rotifera of Yarmouth ; 
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