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WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 29Tn, 1880. 



The Vice-President, W. J. Stephens, Esq., M.A., in the Chair. 



MEMBER ELECTED. 



Dr. Gordon of Mnrrnrundi. 



DONATIONS. 



Eight Annnal Eeport of the Zoological Society of Philadelphia . 



Verhandlungen Zool-Botanischen Gesollschaft in Wein, 1879. 



Journal of the Eoyal Microscopical Society, London, Vol. III., 

 No, 1 and 4. 



Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard 

 College, Massacchusetts, A^ol YL, No. 3. 



Journal of Conchology, Yol. III., No. 3. 



PAPERS READ. 

 On a NEW SPECIES OF DiASERIS. 



By the Eev. J. E. Tenison-AYoods, F.Q-.S., F.L.S., Pres. 

 Linn. Soc. N.S.W. 

 Amongst some corals recently dredged at Port Denison by 

 Messrs. Haswell and Morton there is one new species of a very 

 interesting character. It belongs to the section Madreporaria 

 aporosa^ family Fongidce, second sub-family Loplio^erinm. Amongst 

 the simple and free corals of this division there is one with bare 

 and lobed walls which Messrs. M. -Edwards and Haime experienced 

 much difficulty in assigning to any position because of the 

 incomplete character of the calice. A new genus was erected for 

 it, placed as above, removing it from the gouus Fungia in which 

 it had been included by Michelin (Magasin de Zoologie, Yol. Y., 

 1843). 



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