ANNUAL MEETING 
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Vice-Presidents (continued). 
Dudley W. Buxton, Esq., M.D., D.Sc., 
M.R.C. P. 
The Right Rev. The Lord Bishop of Durham. 
Sir Mountstuart E. Grant Duff, G.C.S.I., 
F.R.S. 
W. Warde Fowler, Esq., M.A. * 
The Right Hon. Sir Edward Fry. 
Sir Edward Grey, M.P. 
The Rev. Professor Henslow, M.A., F.L.S. 
Mrs. Arthur Hill. 
Prof. F. E. Hulrne, F.L.S. 
Sir Robert Hunter, M.A. 
The Rev. J. Kirkman, M.A. 
G. B. LongstafF, Esq., M.D. 
Mrs. Martelli. 
Mrs. Charles Mathews. 
Hon. J. Scott Montagu, M.P. 
G. M. Murray, Esq., P'.R.S., F.L.S. 
G. A. Miisgrave, Esq., F.Z.S., F.R.G.S. 
Mrs. G. A. Musgrave. 
Mrs. Percy Myles. 
J. L. Otter, Esq. 
The Right Hon. Earl Percy, M.P. 
Mrs. E. Phillips. 
The Rev. Canon H. D. Rawnsley, M.A. 
H. D. Skrine, Esq., J.P., D.L. 
The Right Hon. I he Earl of Selbonie. 
The Right Hon. The Earl of Stamford. 
R, Holt White, Esq. 
The Rev. Canon Wilberforce, M.A. 
A. W. Wills, Esq. 
George Avenell, Esq. 
Geo. Rowland Blades, Esq., F.R.G.S. 
John S. Comrie, Esq., F.R.G.S. 
F. Downing, Esq. 
J. Hennell, Esq. 
Mrs. F. E. Lemon. 
Council. 
A. H. Macpherson, Esq., B.C.L., M.A., F.2.S. 
Arthur E. Malaher, Esq. 
Basil W. Martin, Esq., F.Z.S. 
Edward A. Martin, Esq., F.G.S. 
L. E. Taylor, Esq. 
A. B. Wilkinson, Esq. 
Mr. Bond, the Secretary of the National Trust, then explained 
to the meeting the proposed acquisition of part of the shores of 
Derwentwater and appealed for assistance. 
Professor Boulger moved and Mr. Martin seconded a vote of 
thanks to Lord Avebury for presiding. This was cordially voted, 
and the business part of the proceedings terminated. 
In the course of the social gathering that followed, Mr. 
R. B. Lodge gave a lantern demonstration, entitled “ Some 
Examples of Mimicry, Protective Coloration, and other Special 
Devices adopted in the Struggle for Existence in Nature.” 
Microscopic objects were exhibited by Messrs. J. E. Cooper, 
A. W. Dennis, A. E. Hilton, Ernest Hinton, W. H. Langton, 
and C. F. Rousselet ; botanical specimens by Mr. L. E. Taylor 
and others; geological ones by Messrs. F. Downing and E. A. 
Martin ; and zoological ones by Messrs. E. A. Adams, Basil 
Martin and J. E. Whiting, and by Dr. J. W. Williams. Mrs. 
Brightwen sent living specimens of the sacred scarab of Egypt, 
and Mr. F. Primrose Stevenson lent a leg of a French partridge, 
captured in Suffolk, around which, in consequence of a wound, 
a huge mass measuring 7A in. in circumference and weighing 
6J oz., had gradually accumulated. The late Mr. Darwin, who 
examined it, regarded it as a singular confirmation of his tlieory 
as to the transportation of the seeds of plants by adherence to 
the beaks and feet of birds. Writing at the time he said : “ It 
is remarkable, considering that the ball is three years old, that 
eighty-two plants came up from it, twelve being Monocotyledons 
and seventy Dicotyledons, consisting of at least five different 
plants, perhaps many more.” Pictures were also lent by Mrs. 
Philip Hensley, Miss Flora Gordon and Miss Stannard. 
