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observed on the occasion of our visit. Our conductor also 
explained that the deposit in which these remains occur is usually 
covered by talus, and fossils are, as a rule, met with only when it 
has been cleared away by a storm. On arriving at Trimingham 
a bountiful tea awaited us, and my friend, I)r. H. Cooper Pattin, 
President of the Science Gossip Club, presided over one end of 
the tea-table, while I did similar duty at the other end. A pleasant 
drive through Sidestrand and Overstrand brought us to Cromer 
Station, and I think I express the feelings of all present, when 
I say that wo returned borne highly satisfied with a most 
successful excursion, favoured by the finest weather we could have 
wished for. The result will, I hope, be a stimulus for future field 
meetings equally agreeable, and there is no reason to fear, in my 
opinion, that if conducted on similar lines, such should not be 
the case. 
The monthly meetings, at all of which, fortunately, I was able 
to preside, have, as a whole, been well attended, and some excellent 
and instructive papers have been read. 
The following subjects have been dealt with, the figures 
appended showing the numbers of papers or notes given on 
each head : — 
Ornithology 15 
Zoology 3 
Entomology 2 
Botany 2 
Geology 1 
Meteorology 1 
Natural History Notes 1 
These figures are very striking, no less than sixty per cent, of 
the papers read having been on ornithological subjects. Does not 
this fact confirm the view which has sometimes been expressed 
that our Society is getting a little too exclusively ornithological? 
That the meetings are held within the same walls as in which 
are stored one of the finest collections of British Birds in the 
kingdom, is in itself a justification of that subject being that 
most freely dealt with ; but one cannot help wishing that other 
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