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Ordinary Meeting, March 9th, 1869. 
E. W. Binney, F.R.S., F.G.S., Vice-President, in the 
Chair. 
Joseph Chesborough Dyer, Esq., was elected an Honorary 
Member of the Society. 
Professor W. C. Williamson, F.RS., exhibited female 
cones of Araucaria imbricata and fruits of Magnolias, ripened 
last summer in the vicinity of London. He also called 
attention to a communication Irom Mr. Moore of Liverpool, 
to the last number of the “ Magazine of Natural History/' 
pointing out that the beautiful Eupleetella Aspergillum o f 
the Phillipine Islands does not grow attached to the side of 
of a rock, as had often been supposed, but that its silky 
lower extremity is found plunged in soft sand or mud in 
deep water, whence it is obtained by dredging. 
Professor W. S. Jevons, M.A., expressed his pleasure at 
observing that two very interesting papers on economical 
subjects had been communicated to the Society by Mr. Dyer. 
It seemed desirable that the attention of the Society should 
not be devoted exclusively to physical science. He concurred 
generally with most of Mr. Dyer’s remarks, and pointed out 
the importance of his suggestion that manufacturers and 
others possessing technical knowledge of the powers of 
machinery, the quantity of capital required and employed, 
and innumerable other facts concerning our industry, should 
not be adverse to making them known for the public good. 
In reviewing the second of Mr. Dyer’s papers, Mr. J evons 
protested against the notion widely entertained that our 
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