184 PROCEEDINGS OF THE SOCIETY. 



immense amount of work to be done by the Honorary Officers, and know- 

 ing the willingness and skill with which those duties were performed, he 

 felt snre the Meeting would join with him in adopting the resolution. 

 The motion was carried. 



The President announced that the next Meeting of the Society 

 would be held on February 21, at 8 o'clock, and the nest Meeting of the 

 Biological Section on February 7, at 7 o'clock, when Mr. A. W. Sheppard 

 would give a resume of Dr. Leiper's researches on endemic Hsematuria in 

 Egypt. 



New Fellows : — The following were elected Ordinary Fellows of the 

 Society : AV alter Clemence, William Fotheringham, Leonard Newton 

 Heusman. 



The following Specimens, Books, and Photographs were 



Exhibited. 



By the President : — 



Alcide d'Orbigny. From a lithograph by E. Lavallee, 1839. 

 Ditto. From a daguerreotype of 1843, in the Musee de Paleon- 

 tologie, Paris. 

 The Home of the d'Orbignys at Esnandes, near La Rochelle. By 



J. A. Lovegrove, after L. Musset. 

 The early Microscope used by d'Orbigny (?). Preserved in the 



Musee Fleuriau de Bellevue, at La Rochelle. 

 The later Microscope used by d'Orbigny, in the possession of 



Madame Henri d'Orbigny. 

 A few of d'Orbigny's original Models of Foraminifera, from the 



first Instalment of 1823. 

 Some d'Orbignyan species of Foraminifera. 

 One of d'Orbigny's original mounts of Foraminifera, Siderolina 



calcitrapoides Lamarck. ( = Calcarina spengleri Giimbel.). 

 Haphphragmmm. hnmboldti Reuss, from Chatelaillon. 

 No7iionina depressula (W. & J.), constituting 99 "9 p.c. of the 



Foraminifera of Esnandes. 

 Facsimile of the " Blanche Inedite " of Rotalia. 



Ditto ditto of Rosalina. 

 Group of Foraminifera from the mud-flats at Esnandes, near 



La Rochelle. 

 Group of Foraminifera from the shore-sands at Chatelaillon, near 



La Rochelle. 

 The Mussel Fishery at Esnandes, near La Rochelle. 

 A. Batsch, " Sechs Kupfer Tafeln mit Conchylien des Seesandes." 



Jena, 1791. Latin and German editions. (There are only two 



copies of the Latin edition known.) 

 Vol. I. of Soldani's " Testaceographia et Zoophytographia," 1789. 



By Mr. E. J. Sheppard :— 



.Mitosis in Fritillaria root-tip ; fixed at 12 noon. 



