PROCEEDINGS OK THE SOCIETY. l'/9 



AN ORDINARY MP]ETING 



OF THE Society was Held at 20 Hanover Square, W., on 

 Wednesday, January 17th, 1917, Mr. E. Heron-Allen, F.L.S., 

 F.Z.S., ETC., President, in the Chair. 



The Minutes of the preceding Meeting, having been circulated, 

 were taken as read, approved, and signed. 



The President nominated Dr. Leeson and Mr. E. J. Slieppard as 

 Scrutineers for the ballot. 



On the proposition of Mr. Sheppard, Mr. Grundy was elected 

 Auditor. 



^ The President said the Society had to acknowledge, with grateful 

 thanks, a large collection of works on the Rotifera, Tardigrada, etc. 

 Mr. Rousselet presented to the Society, a short time ago, one of the finest 

 collections on this subject which had ever been brought together, and he 

 was sure it would be the wish of Fellows that their cordial thanks should 

 be returned to him for his handsome donation. 



Mr. E. J. Sheppard exhibited a slide under his Microscope showing 

 mitosis in FritUJaria, to illustrate a fact recorded by Chamberlain in 

 his recent book, and perhaps to stimulate investigations to determine at 

 what time mitosis was most prolific. In the onion, according to 

 Chamberlain, mitosis was at its maximum between 12 noon and 1 p.m., 

 and at about 11 p.m. The speaker had found those hours were not 

 uniformly true. Still, in the slide of FritiUaria imperialis, taken at 

 12 midday, it was most perfectly illustrated in the root tips. It would 

 be seen that practically every nucleus was in some stage of mitotic 

 division, from the earliest prophase stage to the late telophase stage. 

 The specimen was stained in safranin and iodine-green. 



The Hon. Secretary read the Report of the Council for the year 

 1916 as follows:— 



FELLOWS. 



The number of Ordinary Fellows elected and reinstated during the 

 year was 1-1, while 12 died, 1 resigned, and 3 have been removed. One 

 Honorary Fellow has been lost by death, namely. Dr. J. W. Judd, 

 of Kew. 



The List of Fellows now stands as follows : 396 Ordinary, 1 Corre- 

 sponding, 29 Honorary, and 81 Ex-officio, or 507 in all. 



