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PROCEEDINGS OF THE SOCIETY. 



MEETING 



Held on the 16th of April, 1913, at 20 Hanover Square, W., 

 Mr. J. E. Barnard, Vice-President, in the Chair. 



The Minutes of the Meeting of March 19, 1913, were read and 

 confirmed, and were signed by the Chairman. 



The Chairman, in proposing a hearty vote of thanks to Messrs. Carl 

 Zeiss for the donation of Professor Sigmund's Preparations, Parts 1-4 

 (with text), said that this donation was the first of a series to l)e 

 presented as and when pubUshed. The Preparations would constitute a 

 valuable addition to the Society's collection. 



A very cordial vote of thanks was passed by the Society to Messrs. 

 Carl Zeiss for their gift. 



Mr. Heron-Allen then drew attention to his exhibit of Leopold von 

 Ficlitel's original water-colour drawings of Foraminifera, which he 

 pointed out was of bibliographical as well as of artistic and scientific 

 interest. Those who had embarked at any time upon the study of 

 Foraminifera would be very familiar with the names of von Fichtel 

 and von Moll ; the majority of the Foraminifera depicted in the plates 

 were included under the old generic name Naufilux^ but the specific 

 names attached were those which had been given them years ago by 

 von Fichtel and von Moll, and those names have differentiated many 

 of the l)est known and commonest Foraminifera ever since. This 

 exhibition of plates acquired peculiar interest because the existence 

 of such books as von Fichtel and von Moll's Testacea Microscopica 

 was one of the questions which had occupied the serious attention of 

 the Nomenclature Section of the Zoological (^ongress, from which he 

 (the speaker) and Dr. Scales (representing the R.M.S.) had just re- 

 turned. Dr. F. A. Bather had suggested to tlie Nomenclature Section 

 the establishment of an Index Expurgatorius for some of these early 

 authorities. But until some such scheme was adopted, the early works 

 of von Fichtel and von Moll, Walker, Jacob, Soldani, and others would 

 remain the authorities for these specific names. One of the discrepancies 

 occasionally found in scientific bil)liography had been noted in con- 



