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Probably few meteor showers have ever been seen more 
favourably for determining the radiant than this one. The 
result of careful counting by myself and Mr. Wilde was that 
from 1800 to 2000 per hour were visible to the naked eye. 
The N.W. horizon was distinctly illuminated about 8 o’clock 
by auroral light, and the whole sky was more or less lumi- 
nous during the whole time. 
Mr. W. Boyd Dawkins, F.RS., brought before the notice 
of the Society some remarkable forms of stalagmites which 
he had obtained from some caves near Tenby. In one cave 
the calcareous deposit had taken the form of small mush- 
rooms standing close together with a stem not much thicker 
than a hair, that covered every part of the surface, and 
in some places had their tops of a dull red colour, and in 
others of a snow white. In a second every pool was lined 
with most beautiful crystals of dog-tooth spar, while from 
the roof there descended slender stalactitic pillars, some 
snow white and others of a deep red, and most of the 
thickness of a straw, They stood almost as closely to- 
gether as the stems of wheat in a wheat field. In a few 
pools where the drip caused constant agitation of the water* 
pea-like rounded concretions of carbonate of lime were 
formed, some of which, polished by friction, were almost as 
lustrous as pearls, and might fairly be termed ‘ cave-pearls.’ 
“ On the date of the Conquest of South Lancashire by the 
English,” by W. Boyd Dawkins, M.A., F.B.S. 
The most important event in the history of Lancashire, 
the conquest by the English, has been either lightly touched 
upon by the county historians such as Baines and Whittaker, 
or so interwoven with the Arthurian legends as to be 
almost unintelligible. The date, so far as I know, has been 
altogether ignored. 
What, however, the modern writers have passed by or 
