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Desiderata for the Library. — Mr. W. Cole called attention to the 
Circular which had been sent out giving a first list of parts and volumes oC 
various publications needed to complete sets in the Library. He pleaded 
strongly for kindly aid in making the library more complete and useful to 
enquirers. 
THE 445th MEETING. 
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Saturday, 27TH February 1915. 
The fourth meeting of the Winter Session was held at 6 o’clock at 
Stratford, as usual. The President in the chair. 
During the afternoon the Toynbee Natural History Society (of which 
our member, Mr. D. J. Scourfield, is President) visited the Museum, and 
afterwards joined in the evening meeting. 
Mr. George W. Ivey, of “ Alcyone,” Harrow Drive, Romford, was 
elected a member. 
In anticipation of the Annual Meeting, nominations were made of 
officers and members of the Council (see report of the Annual Meeting). 
War-Time Field Meetings.—Mr. Percy Thompson said that the 
Council and Officers had carefully considered the possibilities of holding 
Field Meetings during the coming spring and summer. Very considerable 
restrictions had become necessary owing to the military occupation of 
our County. Any meetings on or near the coast would be absolutely 
barred, and therefore it would be necessary to organise meetings in other 
and more accessible districts in the county and around London, and in 
some of the Public Gardens and Museums. Particulars would be sent to 
members as soon as possible in each case. All would appreciate the peculiar 
difficulties attending the planning and carrying out excursions of large 
parties during the present times of national stress and anxiety. 
Incisor Teeth of Rhinoceros. —Mr. E. T. Newton, F.R.S., exhibited 
some incisor and canine teeth of the Indian Rhinoceros, and called attention 
to their peculiar form. There were only two broad incisors in the upper 
jaw, one on each side, and sometimes a very small one behind these. The 
front of the lower jaw was occupied by a pair of large triangular teeth 
usually regarded as canines, but in the position of incisors, and between 
these a very small pair of cylindrical incisors. 
African Rhinoceroses have no teeth in the front of either upper or 
lower jaw, except perhaps rudiments which are never functional. 
British Pleistocene Rhinoceroses are said to be most closely related 
to the African species, and it seemed probable therefore that they likewise 
had no incisor teeth, and this would account for the fact that Rhinoceros 
incisors have not been met with in British Pleistocene deposits. 
Bone Polishing Implements. —Mr. H. Mothersole sent for exhibition 
some bone implements used by the late Mr. W. Brown, cricket-bat maker, 
of Chelmsford, for the purpose of burnishing the backs of the bats after 
they had been planed and rubbed down with sand paper ; they were 
then polished ; the face of the bat being oiled only. Mr. Brown’s son 
states that they were used about 50 years ago. 
I have enquired of other makers, writes Mr. Mothersole, who were 
