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St. Thomas Place, Hackney ; Joliii Hopldnson, 8, Lawn 

 Eoad, Haverstock Hill, N.W. ; John Barber, 29, Bruns- 

 wick Gardens, Campden Hill ; Samuel John Mclntire, 22, 

 Bessborough Gardens, S."W. ; William Allbon, 525, New Oxford 

 Street ; James Bell, Inland Revenue Laboratory, Somerset 

 House ; Arthur Raymond Betts, St. John's Park, Upper 

 Holloway ; Henry James Helm, The Laboratory, Somerset 

 House; John Edmund Ingpen, 7, Putney Hill, Surrey; 

 AVilliam Manning, 47, Clifton Eoad East ; John Eogerson, 

 St. Clair Cottage, St. John's "Wood ; George Naylor Stokor, 

 Inland Eevenue Laboratory, Somerset House ; Arthur O'Brien 

 Jones, The Shrubbery, Epsom, Surrey ; John Martin, M.D., 

 Cambridge House, Portsmouth ; John Robinson Barnes, M.D., 

 Ewell, Surrey ; William Savill Kent, 56, Queen's Eoad, Netting 

 Hill ; William White, 3, Miiner Square, Islington. 



The following gentlemen were balloted for and duly elected 

 Fellows of the Society : 



Charles Coppock, 'Peter J. Gowlland, F.E.C.S., G. E. Legg 

 Pearce, Henry Sugden Evans, and John Williams, as Honorary 

 Fellow. 



The President repeated the notice given at the former meet- 

 ing respecting the opening of the Library. 



A paper was read by John Goeham, M.R.C.S,, &c., " On 

 Some Peculiarities in the Distribution of Veins in Umbelliferas." 

 (See 'Trans.,' p. 14.) 



Mr. Jabez Hogg expressed surprise to find that a subject 

 of apparently much interest, one most ably brought to the notice 

 of the Society, had received so small an amount of attention frorQ 

 botanical writers. In a letter received from Dr. Maxwell 

 Masters, that botanist offered a few remarks bearing on the 

 question before them, which he would, with the permission of the 

 president, read to the Society. Dr. Masters says: — "I have had 

 some correspondence with Mr. Gorham about the matter (of the 

 venation of the Umbellifera'), and believe that the facts he has 

 discovered have not been recorded before ; at any rate, I have 

 failed to find any notice of them up to the present time. The 

 peculiarity in question is found in some other plants, and is not, 

 I should imagine, of any very great physiological importance. In 

 a group like the Umbelliferse, where the species, and even the 

 genera, are often so hard to discriminate, it is an excellent thing 

 to get hold of facts like those discovered by Mr. Gorham, and I 

 am very glad that he has taken the matter up, as I believe there 

 are many similar things that have been overlooked, and which 

 when collated will be very serviceable. Nature printing has done 

 a good deal in this way. The publications of some Austrian 

 botanists — Ettingohausen, Pokorny, and others — are worthy of at- 

 tentive examination with reference to the venation of fossil, or of 

 recent leaves." 



Although quite true that some other plants have a similar kind 

 of venation, Mr. Hogg believed it would be difficult to show that 



