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9 inches, twenty-eight measuring from 8 to 9 inches, and about a 

 hundred from 7 to 8 inches. 



A discussion followed in which the Chairman, Prof. Howes, 

 Messrs. H. Groves, Bernard Arnold, and J. E. Harting took part ; 

 the last-named exhibiting some specimens oiAnodonta from Horsham, 

 Sussex, measuring 7 inches in width. 



The following papers were read : — 



1. "On some new Foraminifera from the Lagoon at Funafuti." 

 By Frederick Chapman, A.L.S. 



2. « A Eevision of the British Thrifts." By G. Claridge Druce, 

 F.L.S. 



December 20th, 1900. 



Prof. S. H. Vines, M.A., F.R.S., President, in the Chair. 



The Minutes of the last Meeting were read and confirmed. 



Messrs. Charles William Agnew Bruce, Ananda K. Coomara- 

 Swamy, and Arnold T. Watson were admitted Fellows of the 

 Society. 



On behalf of Dr. J. W. Cornwall, F.L.S., the Secretary exhi- 

 bited two photographs of a compound flower which appeared on a 

 white Foxglove growing in a garden near Godalming. 



Mr. B. Daydon Jackson exhibited two editions of Hill's ' Flora 

 Britaunica,' the earlier, dated 1759, being apparently unknown to 

 bibliographers. This edition difiers from the usual issue of 1760 

 in having a different title-page, and publisher's name : the copy 

 exhibited wants the plates mentioned on the title. The species 

 ascribed to the genus Statice are three in number; in modern 

 nomenclature one species of Armeria and two of Statice. 



Some additional remarks were made by Mr. Henry Groves. 



Prof. Howes, F.E,.S., exhibited a couple of Pigeon's Egg-shells, 

 cast up at the mouth by the tropical African Egg-eating Snake 

 Dasi/peltis scahra, now living in the Zoological Society's Gardens, 

 and called attention to the presence of a series of spiral and 

 longitudinal fracture-lines, pointing to an elaborate coordinate 

 muscular activity in the ' crushing ' process, the probable nature of 

 which he discussed, in the light of the recent investigations of 

 Katheriner into the anatomy of the animal and the observations of 

 Miss Durham upon its feeding habits. 



A discussion followed in which Prof. Poulton and Prof. Marcus 

 Haitog took part, the latter expressing his regret that Miss Durham, 

 who had first described and figured the mode in which Dasypeltis 

 swallows the eg^, and disposes of the shell, was precluded from 

 being present at this discussion. 



Prof. Poulton, F.E.S., exhibited a living specimen of the Death's- 



