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Mr. Buffham read a paper " On a New Sea Weed found in 

 Cornwall," Bonnemaisonia hamifera, Har., the subject being 

 well illustrated by drawings and lantern slides. 



The President being obliged to leave the meeting, the chair 

 was taken by Mr. A. D. Michael, who expressed the hearty 

 thanks of the Club to Mr. Buffham for his very interesting 

 paper, furnished under difficult circumstances at short notice. 

 How it was that these plants and even animals did somehow 

 get across the seas and appear in places at great distances from 

 their native habitats, was a matter which had often puzzled 

 naturalists. As Mr. Buffham had suggested, it was quite 

 possible that the spores might be carried with other things 

 upon the bottoms of ships, and eventually get deposited in 

 places which were favourable to their development, and he 

 also thought it was very probable that they might sometimes 

 be brought upon the feet of wading migratory birds, which 

 often came from great distances. But whatever the cause 

 might be, there could be no doubt that plants did sometimes 

 turn up in a very remarkable manner at great distances from 

 their known habitats, an instance of which occurred to him in 

 the case of a spotted Arum, which was found growing in some 

 profusion on a small rocky island off the coast of Corsica, and 

 nowhere else nearer than South America. 



The thanks of the meeting were unanimously voted to Mr. 

 Buffham for his paper. 



Mr. J. E. Ingpen read a note " On the Scent Hairs of 

 Lepidoptera," illustrating the subject by drawings upon the 

 board and specimens exhibited. 



Mr. Karop said he should like to know upon what grounds 

 these modified scales were regarded as scent-emitting organs. 

 It was certainly true that on emerging from the chrysalis some 

 few lepidoptera, sometimes the <?, sometimes the ?, were 

 known to emit an evanescent odour which was reasonably 

 supposed to attract the opposite sex. The phenomenon of 

 "assembling," well-known to all entomologists, showed that in 

 some cases at least there was an attractive influence which was 

 very powerful and appeared to act at considerable distance, but 

 were these hairs or scent patches found in every case where 

 " assembling " was known to occur ? Fritz Miiller, he believed, 

 was the first who drew attention to these hairs and indicated 



