PE0CEEDING8 OF THE 



November 18th, 1897. 



Dr. Albert C. L. G. Gukthee, F.E.S., President, in the Chair, 



The Minutes o£ the last Meeting were read and confirmed. 



Messrs. Daniel Angel Jones, Peter G-oiffon, and Edward' 

 Russell Budden were admitted Fellows of the Society. 



The President announced that since the close of last Session 

 thev had been so fortunate as to receive from Prof. G. J. Allman, 

 a former President of the Society, a portrait of himself paiuted 

 by Miss Busk, whose portrait of her late father w'as now hangincr 

 near it. It was an excellent likeness, and he was sure it would 

 be highly valued. He moved that a vote of thanks be recorded 

 for the presentation, and this was unanimously agreed to. 



Mr. Alan P. Grossman, P.LS., exhibited photographs of a 

 fasciated Lily {Liliuon auratiim\ on which some remarks were 

 made by Mr. A. D. Michael, P.L.S. 



Mr. P. Morton Middleton, F.L.S., exhibited and made remarks 

 on some Ants received from Epbesus. These had been referred' 

 to in a previous communication as being made use of in Asia 

 Minor for the purpose of holding together the edges of incised 

 wounds by means of their strongly hooked and sharp mandibles 

 (Journ. Linn. Soc, Zool. vol. xxv. p. 405). The species was now 

 identified as Catagh/phvs viatica, Fabr. Mr. Thomas Christy,. 

 F.L.S., gave some additional information resulting I'rom inquiries 

 he had made of foreign correspondents. 



Mr. J. E. Harting, F.L.S. , exhibited a specimen of the Great 

 Black Woodpecker (Piciis martins) lately received from Col.- 

 W. C. Dawson of Weston Hall, Otley, Yorkshire, where it had 

 been shot in his presence by a friend on the Sth Sept. last. It 

 was shown that this could not be the bird which had recently 

 been lost from the Zoological Gardens, since the latter did not 

 escape until Oct. 9th. Allusion was made to the numerous 

 records of the occurrence of this species in England, some of 

 which at least seemed worthy of credence, since the recorded 

 specimens had been obtained by, and were preserved in the 

 possession of trustworthy persons. 



Mr. Howard Saunders expressed the opinion that there was 

 no sufiicient ground for including Picus martins in the list of 

 British birds, as from its partiality for pine forests and its 

 stationary habits, it was not likely to be a voluntary "visitor to 

 this country. — The President remarked that the perfect state of 

 plumage of the specimen exhibited was satisfactory evidence of 

 its not having recently escaped from captivity; and that the 

 late Lord Lilford, the year before his death (which occurred on 



