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METEOROLOGICAL NOTES. 
Mr. S. Henson exhibited a fine collection of Minerals, including some 
magnificent crystals of Stibnite, lately found in Japan. Crystals of 
this mineral are usually about one inch long; they have been found in 
this mine twenty-four inches long, and showing a number of faces 
previously unknown ; he also showed models of Historical Diamonds, 
“ Sherry-coloured ” Topaz, from Siberia, and other minerals. Mr. C. 
J. Woodward exhibited Barytes Crystals, from Salop, and Minerals 
and Models used in teaching the Institute Mineralogy Class. Mr. G. 
W. Tait exhibited fragments from the vitrefied fort in Sutherlandshire. 
In the department of Art and Archaeology, Mr. W. R. Hughes 
exhibited a series of forty Portraits of Charles Dickens, from 1837 
to 1870, and a number of large and striking illustrations to his 
works; Mr. W. B. Grove, a series of Drawings of Fungi by Rev. 
H. W. Lett, Lurgan, Ireland ; Mr. Alderman White, Photographs 
of Tyrol and Alpine Scenery; Messrs. Watson and Robinson, 
Photographic Prints, taken by themselves; and Mr. J. Rabone, a 
Wax Medallion of Matthew Boulton from life; Napier’s Rods (called, 
when made of ivory, Napier’s Bones); Circles of Proportion; the 
Shakespeare Brooch, found at Stratford in 1828 ; Hooke’s “ Micro- 
graphia” (1667), the first book written on the microscope; and 
“ Investigatio Arcana Rerum” (1696), by Leeuwenhoek, the first 
discoverer of the Infusoria. 
Messrs. E. J. Love and W. J. Harrison exhibited a few physical 
experiments, and Messrs. C. J. Watson and C. R. Robinson demon¬ 
strated the production of lantern Photographs, in a dark room ; some 
of these and other photographs taken by the members were exhibited 
during the evening in the lantern by Mr. C. Pumphrey. In regard to 
the number and interest of the objects brought together the Conver¬ 
sazione was inferior to none which have been given previously by 
the Society, but the attendance was unfortunately not equal to the 
expectations which had been formed. 
METEOROLOGICAL NOTES.— October, 1884. 
The barometer was rising at the commencement of the month ; it 
experienced a slight check on the 2nd, and then rose rapidly to the 5th, 
when the amount of pressure exceeded 307 inches. A decided fall 
sucQeeded, and on the 10th the reading was below '29*5 inches. 
Another, more gradual, rise followed, and from the 21st pressure was 
unsteady, but increasing at the close of the month. Temperature was 
about two degrees below the average. In the earlier part of the month 
the range was rather wide, but towards the middle of the month the 
variations were but slight. No great extremes were registered; the 
highest were 63-7° at Hodsock, on the lStli; 63 6° at Loughborough; 
