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Garden, Trinidad, but without any information concerning the bird 

 which built it. It was constructed almost entirely of the soft 

 plumose seeds of a species of Tillandsia (Broraeliaceae) . It measured 

 a foot in length and between 4 and 5 inches in its greatest diameter ; 

 and had the entrance at the base, the receptacle for the eggs being 

 near the top of the inside. 



Mr. J. E. Harting, F.L.S., in reply to a question from the 

 Chairman, said that without seeing a specimen of the bird which 

 had built the nest in question, it was not easy to name the species 

 with certainty ; but that it was doubtless the nest of an Icterus^ and 

 probably of Icterus leucopteryx, commonly known in the West Indies 

 as the Banana-bird. 



Mr. James Groves, F.L.S., on behalf of Mr. Cecil 11. P. Andrews, 

 exhibited specimens of a Sea Lavender new to the Channel Islands, 

 Statice hjchnidifolia, Girard, discovered by Mr. Andrews in August 

 of the present year growing sparingly on low rocl\S by the sea in 

 Alderney in company with S. occidentalism the most nearly allied 

 British species. The distinguishing characteristics of S. h/cJinidifoHa, 

 as noted by Mr. Andrews, were the large, many-ner\'ed leaves, the 

 stout scapes with large scales, the broad dark bracts, and the trian- 

 gular calyx-teeth. 



Mr. Groves pointed out that the interest of the record consisted 

 not so much iu the fact of the plant occurring in Alderney (being 

 a native of the adjacent French coast, and the Channel Islands 

 being geographically more French than British), as in the fact that 

 a species should be added to the flora of one of our possessions so 

 near home. 



The following papers were read : — 



1. " Contributions to the Comparative Anatomyof theCycadacese.' 

 By W. C. Worsdell, F.L.S. 



2. " On Goidelia echiura, a new Entozoie Copepod from Japan." 

 By Miss A. L. Embleton. (Communicated by Prof. G. B. Howes, 

 Sec. L, Soc.) 



December 6th, 1900. 

 Dr. F. D. GoDMAN, F.R.S., Vice-President, in the Chair. 

 The Minutes of the last Meeting were read and confirmed. 



Mr. Walter Hoare was admitted, and the following were elected 

 Fellows of the Society : — Messrs. Charles William Agnew Bruce, 

 Malcolm Burr, Ananda K. Coomara-Swamy, Charles Alphonse Le 

 Doux, Francis John Lewis, Theodore llichard Robinson, and Henry 

 Alwin Soames. 



Dr. A. B. Kendle, F.L.S., exhibited specimens, including leaves 

 and fruit, of Grasswrack, Zostera marina, Linn., recentlv found by 



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