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PROCEEDINGS OF THE SOCIETY. 



AN ORDINARY MEETING 



OF THE Society was held at No. 20 Hanover Square, London, 

 ON Wednesday, June 21st, 191G, Mr. E. Heron-Allen, 

 F.L.S., etc., President, in the Chair. 



The List of Donations received since the last Meeting was read as 

 follows, and the thanks of the Society were accorded to the donors :-t- 



From 



Report of the British Association for 1915 ., Sir Frank Crisp. 



" La Science Francaise " 12 vok \ i ^^'^ Director of the Office " Nat. 



l^abciencei^ranQaise (^ vols.) { des Universit<is et Ecoles fran^." 



Mr. G. H. J. Rogers demonstrated a home-made portable Microscope 

 lamp, fashioned from an ordinary pocket electric lamp with the addition 

 of a ground-glass screen. 



The thanks of the Meeting were voted to Mr. Rogers for his interest- 

 ing exhibit. 



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Miss G. Lister, F.L.S., then gave a communication on the "Life- 

 history of the Mycetozoa, with special reference to Ceratiomyxa,'''' 

 illustrated by lantern slides and copiously coloured drawings. 



In the discussion which followed, Mr. Hilton, Sir Edwin Ray 

 Lankester, Professor Hickson, and Sir Henry Howarth took part. 



Miss Lister briefly replied to the points raised in the discussion, at 

 the conclusion of which a very cordial vote of thanks was passed to 

 Miss Lister for her interesting communication and exhibition, to 

 Messrs. Hilton and Huish for their exhibits, and to Mr. Angus for pro- 

 viding a goodly supply of Microscopes. 



The President drew the attention of the Fellows to the loss the 

 Society had sustained by the death of two prominent Fellows — 

 Mr. Richard Thomas Lewis, who had been a Member since 18G6 ; and 

 Mr. Frederick Enock, well-known for his interesting and popular ex- 

 positions of the life-histories of various insects. 



It was announced that the rooms of the Society would be closed 

 from Wednesday, August 16, to Wednesday, September 20. 



The following" Specimens were exhibited. — • 



Mr. Sydney C. Akehurst, F.R.M.S. : — Germinating spores of Reticularia 

 lycoperdon. 



Mr. A. E. Hilton : — Creeping plasmodium of Badhamia utricularis, 

 showing the reversing currents. 



