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temperature at times as low as 44 deg , and with scant 
and sparse vegetation, they could not expect much animal 
life. A small rat was the biggest thing they were able 
to obtain. Reptilia was only represented by lizards ; 
snakes seemed to be entirely absent. Of birds they got 
three different species — the same on the last journey. 
The lower groups of insefts were fairly abundant, and 
there were many small myriapods resembling small centi- 
pedes. They also found one or two scorpions. The 
beetles which they obtained on the previous occasion 
were all new. They belonged to groups already known, 
but they were specifically distin61: from any described. 
The mystery that surrounded Roraima and the idea that 
one might find curious representatives on the top of the 
old groups which had survived the various changes of 
time had pra6lically disappeared. Other physical fea- 
tures of Roraima such as meteorology and ethnology, 
he proposed to incorporate along with those to which 
he had referred, in a paper later on. The complete 
results could only be obtained in the course of time, 
but he thought he might say Mr. McConnell intended 
that this later expedition should be perpetuated in 
some better form than small abstracts in various 
journals. 
The Hon. B. H. Jones called attention to the fa6l 
that a debt of gratitude was due to Mr. F, V. McConnell, 
as, without his assistance, the expedition could not have 
taken place. 
Thanks were accorded for the following donations to 
the Museum :— Small fish by Mr. C. C. Baker; eight 
coins by Mr. Thomas Harrison; tiny medal with Liberty 
Bell and Lord's Prayer and Austrian coin by Mr. W. H. 
Kosterman ; small water snake, and crowned buzzard by 
Mr. G. S. Jenman ; white-wing plover by Mr. B. S. 
Conrad; Elephant Beetle by Mr. N. D. Menzies; Har- 
lequin Beetle by Rev. J. P. Walker ; two Grebes by Mr. 
A. Craigen ; Model of an Indian boy and also a black 
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