PKOCEEDINGS OF THE 



February 3rd, 1S98. 



Dr. Albeet C. L. G. Gunthee, F.E.S., President, in the Chair. 



The Minutes of the last Meeting were read and confirmed. 



Messrs. Wilson Crosfield Worsdell and Wickham Flower were 

 admitted, and Professor Thomas WiJliam Bridge was elected a 

 Fellow of the Society. 



Prof. Stewart, F.R.S., F.L.S., exhibited (1) specimens illus- 

 trative of the articulation between the upper and lower jaw of a 

 Skate, Baia hatis, Linn., upon which remarks were made by Prof. 

 Howes and Mr. Holt ; and (2) drawings of Puccinia grnminis, 

 showing the form of the teleutospores and aecidiospores, upon 

 which some observations were made by Dr. D. H. Scott, F.R.S., 

 confirmatory of the exhibitor's views. 



Mr. Thomas Christy, F.L.S., exhibited a portion of an iron 

 chain through the links of which a Virginiim Creeper, Vitis 

 hederacea,^hv\\., had grown and had become naturally intertwined. 



The following papers were read : — 



1. " On the Muscular Attachment of the Animal to its Shell 

 in some Fossil Cephalopoda (Ammonoidea)." By G. C. Crick, 

 F.G.S., F.Z.S. (Communicated by the President.) 



2. " On the Comparative Anatomy ot certain Genera of the 

 Cycadace»." By W. C. Worsdell, F.L.S. 



February 17th, 1898. 



Dr. Albeet C. L. G. GtixTHEE, F.R.S., President, in the Chair. 



The Minutes of the last Meeting were read and confirmed. 



Dr. Kakichi Mitsukuri, Professor of Zoology, Imperial Uni- 

 versity, Tokyo, was admitted a Foi-eign Member of the Society. 



Prof. G. B. Howes, F.E.S., exhibited specimens of Dog-fishes — 

 (1) ScyUlum canicula from the egg-case, and (2) Scyllium catulus 

 prematurely hatched, which he had received from his friend and 

 former pupil Mr. E. AV. L. Holt, of the Marine Biological 

 Laboratory at Plymouth. The specimens showed the dorso- 

 lateral and caudal placoids which ltd Filippi to propose the 

 species Scyllium acanthonotum, shown by Dr. Giinther to be 

 based upon a developmental character, and had in recent years 

 been the subject of some interesting speculations by Paul Meyer. 

 For comparison he exhibited also an embryo from the purse of 

 CallorhyncTius ayitarcticus^ showing a similar set of organs, and 

 gave reasons for surmising that they are not merely transitory 



