LINNEAN SOCIETY OP LONDON. 5 



A discussion followed, in which Prof. Bower and Prof. Marshall 

 "Ward took part. 



The following papers were read : — 



1. ''■ On the Biology o( Affaricusvelufijyes, Curt." ByMr. E.H. 

 Biffen. (Communicated by Prof. H. Marshall Ward, E.R.S., 

 i\L.S.) 



2. " On the Gastric Glands of the Marsupialia." By Mr. James 

 Johnston. (Commuuicated by Prof. G. B. Howes, Sec. L. !Sjc.) 



December 15 th, 1898. 



Dr. Albert C. L. G. Gunther, P.R.S., President, in the Chair. 



The Minutes of the last Meeting were read and confirmed. 



Messrs. Donald McDonald, Daniel Finlayson, and Eichard 

 Frank Hand were admitted, and the following were elected Fel- 

 lows of the Society : — Harold Warren Moniugton, Oswald Alan 

 Eeade, and Theophilus Hatton Wardlewortb. 



On behalf of Capt. John Marriott, two Crustaceans were ex- 

 hibited which had been procured by him ou a recent journey to 

 ihe Sinai Peninsula, and had been identified as Grapsus macu- 

 latus and I'anulirus penicillatus. A brief account of the distri- 

 bution and haoits was given by Mr. Hartiug. 



The Eev. T. E. E. Siebbing reterred to a well-known case of 

 P. penicillatus m the Paris Museum, exhibiting the singular 

 monstrosity of an eye-stalk developing a flagellum or lash-like 

 termination, an observation which he thought had not been 

 confirmed. 



Prof. Howes remarked that the ophthalmite had been proved 

 to regenerate after removal as an anteuniform appendage, by 

 Herbat in FalcBinon (Archiv f. Entwickeluugsmecbauik d. Org., 

 Bd. ii. p. 544) and by Hofer in Astacus fluviatilis (Verb. Deutscb. 

 Zool. Geseilsch. 18^4, p. b2), in which latter it was observed to 

 be biramous. 



The following papers were read .- — 



1. " Sketch of tiie Zoology and Botany of the Altai Mountains." 

 By H. J. Elwes, F.E.S., P.L.S. 



2. " A Description of some Marine and Freshwater Crustacea 

 from Franz-Josef Laud, collected by Mr. W. S. Bruce, of the 

 Jackson-Harmsworth Polar Expedition." By Thomas Scott, 

 F.L.S. 



