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The two members of the Council who have attended the 
least number of meetings shall be ineligible for re-election 
for at least one year. 
October 20th, 1862. 
Professor Williamson, F.R.S., President of the 
Section, in the Chair. 
Mr. George Venables Vernon, F.R.A.S., was elected a 
member of the Section. 
Mrs. Bury, of Croft Lodge, Ambleside, presented, through 
Professor Williamson, a series of twelve photographic plates, 
with seventy-two figures of Polycistvns from drawings by 
that lady ; also seventeen mounted slides of Barbadoes earth. 
Mr. Horatio J. Frembly, of Gibraltar, presented, through 
Mr. H. A. Hurst, thirty-four slides of tongues of mollusca, 
collected and mounted by himself. An elaborate report upon 
their scientific classification was read by Dr. Thomas Alcock. 
Mr. FI. A. Hurst presented a collection of tongues of 
mollusca, from Bengal, made by him during his residence in 
India. They have been placed in the hands of Dr. Alcock, 
who has kindly undertaken to examine and report thereupon. 
Captain J. C. Gales, of the ship “ Quito,” presented 
soundings taken off the coast of Chili mid the Falkland 
Islands ; two specimens of anchor mud, from the Falkland 
Islands ; and some of the Fticus Natans from the Sargossa 
Sea, with specimens of its inhabitants, dried in the sun. 
Captain Curling, of the P. and O. S. S. “ China,” presented 
four soundings from the coasts of Malabar, Yemen, Malacca, 
&c. ; Captain Vickers, of the “Rosina Claypole,” anchor mud 
from Port Royal and Black River, Jamaica, and a sounding 
taken off the south coast of Ireland ; and Captain Samuel 
Flood, of the ship “ Pantoleon,” anchor mud from Sumatra 
and Malacca. Two deep Atlantic soundings in 1,730 and 
2,220 fathoms, were also thankfully acknowledged. 
