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the speakers ; and, on the motion of the President, a very hearty vote of
thanks was given to him for his lecture.
The usual conversazione concluded the meeting, at which objects were
shown by Mr. Oldham, Mr. Walter Crouch, and Mr. White.
Saturday, November 27th, 1886. Ordinary Meeting-.
The seventy-second Ordinary Meeting was held in the Public Hall,
Loughton, at half-past six o'clock, Mr. T. V. Holmes, President, in the
chair.
Mr. George Abbott was elected member of the Club.
Dr. Cory was nominated on behalf of the Council, and Mr. E. T.
Stringer on behalf of the members, Auditors of the Treasurer's accounts.
The Secretary made an announcement of the decision of the Council
to issue the 'Transactions' and 'Proceedings' of the Club in the
future as a monthly periodical to be entitled ' The Essex Naturalist,
being the journal of the Essex Field Club,' the first number of which
would be published in January next. Full details would be sent to
members with the next monthly circular.
The Secretary also read a letter from Professor Meldola, Secretary to
the Corresponding Societies Committee of the British Association,
communicating a Report of the Proceedings at the last Conference of
Delegates, and asked that the members of the Club be kept informed of
the work of the various Committees of the Association with a view to
giving aid when possible. Professor Meldola also made a verbal state-
ment on this subject.
Mr. Henry Walker, F.G.S., then delivered a lecture, entitled
" Animals with more than two Eyes," being an account of recent studies
in Zoology. The lecturer divided his subject as follows :—
'' Eyes may occur on various part of the body.—Animals with eyes on
their backs.—Animals with eyes round their bodies.—Headless animals
with eyes.—Eyes on the Shells of Molluscs.
Eyes of animals vary in shape.—Hexagonal eyes of Bees, Flies and
Ants. —' Portcullis eye' of House-Cricket.— Various ' window-panes'
through which invertebrate animals look out on the world ; diamond-
shaped, sauare-shaped, hexagonal, and circular.—Square and hexagonal
eyes on the same animal.
Eyes of animals vary in number.—Animals with but one eye.—
Animals with many eyes.—A Chiton with eight thousand eyes.
Myriad-eyed animals, and what they see.
Three-eyed Reptiles. — The Australian Fringed Lizard and its
ancestors.— Three-eyed Saurians and Amphibians of antiquity.—Buried
eyes and their zoological significance.
What is an eye ?—Rudimentary eyes.—Intermediate eyes and com-
plete eyes co-existent in the same animal.
The evolution of eyes."*
The lecture was illustrated with numerous lantern transparencies,
specially prepared, which were shown by means of the oxy-hydrogen
* A summary of Mr. Walker's observations will be found in his paper in
'Leisure Hour' for April, 1886, pp. 245-249.