THE ANNUAL MEETING 
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The inventor of the Grun liquid lens exhibited coloured slides 
made with its help ; and the Neotint Lantern Slide Company 
had a general series of lantern pictures of Natural History as 
well as a set arranged by the Secretary of the Selborne Society 
for the Children’s Country Holidays Fund. 
From the Stepney Borough Museum, over which Miss Kate 
Hall presides, came honey, gathered by “ East End ” bees, which 
was without doubt obtained from sugar at the docks. Miss Hall 
also showed a simple method of aerating an acjuarium. 
A large series ot beautiful and curious shells was brought by 
Mr. G. 1 >. Sowerby, F.L.S., who described them to the visitors 
which they attracted, in his usual genial way. 
The Kev. .\shington Bullen, B..\., F.L S., F.G.S., had on view 
an albino mole, and a striking little collection of the left-handed, 
high-spired land shells, Clansilio', which, from the little hinged 
plate which closes the entrance of the shell when its owner 
retires within, have sometimes been called “ swing-door snails.” 
Mr. E. T. Newton, F.R.S., contributed some cases from his 
collection of the otoliths or ear-stones of bony fishes, and in this 
connection the publisher of Knowledge sent for distribution a 
number of copies of that magazine containing an article on the 
subject. 
Some pretty artificial flowers made from shells were brought 
by Miss Whitmore, and the Secretary exhibited a white stoat 
from Monmouthshire, interesting on the account of the way in 
which the winter change of colour had affected to a great 
extent the tail, which usually in the ermine remains black. The 
Selborne Society encourages the wearing of feathers of domesti- 
cated birds, and a large series of the natural plumage of the 
ostrich — from wings, body and tail — sent by Messrs. J. Salaman 
and Co., was most appropriate. Perhaps the largest exhibit of 
all was that of ivory, due to the courtesy and kindness of Mr. 
A. van Noorden. This included Mammoth and African 
elephant tusks, one pair of the latter rivalling the former in size, 
and weighing no less than 105 pounds apiece. Tusks and teeth 
of walrus, hippopotamus and whale, were also shown, together 
with trumpets and pounders of native workmanship, and two 
finely carved Benin tusks. Two ways also of making a billiard 
ball were illustrated by actual specimens, and the method in 
which the waste is used in India for the carving of bangles was 
exemplified. Mr. van Noorden also contributed some specially 
beautiful examples of ivory, the milk tusks of the elephant, which 
alone show signs of any enamel, and a fine horn of the extinct 
White Rhinoceros. The corridors were adorned with some beauti- 
ful rubbings of brasses made by Mr. Miller Christy, F.L.S., and 
Mr. Tom. E. Sedwick. Some specimens exhibited by the latter 
w'ere intended to show what could be determined from rubbings 
of tomb-stones from which the brasses had been torn away. 
Mr. J. Shaw Crompton, R.I., hung upon the screens a 
number of pictures painted in Egypt, together w’ith a series of 
