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^ PEOCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



LIMEAN SOCIETY OF LONDON. 



(ONE HUNDRED AND TWELFTH SESSION, 1899-1900.) 



November 2nd, 1899. 



Dr. AiiBEET C. L. G-. Gunthee, E.E.S., President, in the Chair. 



The Minutes of the last Meeting were read and confirmed. 



Prof. C. Stewart, E.E.S., E.L.S., exhibited and made remarks 

 on a preparation of the leaves of Mimosa pudica, showing the 

 diurnal and nocturnal positions. He also exhibited the embryo 

 and egg-cases of Cestracion PTiilippi. 



The following papers were read : — 



1. " On the Proliferous State of the Awn of Nepal Barley." 

 By the Eev. Prof. George Henslow, F.L.S. 



2. " On the Hyobranchial Skeleton and Larynx of the new 

 Aglossal Toad, Hymenochirus Boettgeri." By Dr. W. G. Eide- 

 wood, E.L.S. 



3. " On the Eye-spot and Cilium in Euglena viridis." By- 

 Harold Wager, E.L.S. 



November 16th, 1899. 

 Mr. Geoege E. M. Mueeay, F.E.S., Vice-President, in the Chair. 

 The Minutes of the last Meeting were read and confirmed. 

 Mr. Alfred Eussell Eox was admitted a Fellow of the Society. 



Mr. J. E. Harting, F.L.S. , communicated particulars of severa. 

 cases in which Parrots had been poisoned by eating Parsley 

 After commenting on ins^ces in which plants that were 



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