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PKOCEEDINGS OF THE SOCIETY. 



MEETING 



Held on the 17th of April, 1901, at 20 Hanover Square, W. 

 William Carruthers, Esq., F.K.S., President, in the Chair. 



The Minutes of the Meeting of 20th of March, 1901, were read 

 and confirmed, and were signed by the President. 



A letter was read from the Secretary of the Selborne Society inviting 

 the assistance of Fellows of the Eoyal Microscopical Society as ex- 

 hibitors of objects under their Microscopes, at a Converzatione to be 

 held at 20 Hanover Square on the evening of May 16th, at the close of 

 the proceedings on the occasion of the Annual Meeting of the Society. 



The List of Donations to the Society received since the last Meeting 

 ( exclusive of exchanges and reprints) was read, and the thanks of the 

 Society were voted to the Donors. 



From 

 Coulter and Chamberlain,|Morphology of Spermatophytes. (8vo,\ ^ Publishers 



New York, 1901) / 



Lambert, F. C, Lantern Slide Making. (Svo, London, 1901) .. The Publishers. 

 Piper, O.W., A First Book of the Lens. (Svo, London, 1901) .. The Publishers. 

 Journal of the Board of Agriculture, vol. vii. No. 4. (8vo, London, \ The Board of 



l'.iOl) J Agriculture. 



The President said they were to be favoured with a demonstration 

 by Mr. F. Enoch on the metamorphoses of JEschna cyanea, one of the 

 British dragon-flies. Mr. Enoch's work in tracing out the life-history 

 of insects was well known ; he had for many years devoted himself 

 to the study of their development, with the result that his patient 

 investigations had made most important additions to biological know- 

 ledge. 



Mr. F. Enock said that the slides he was about to exhibit were a 



