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Prof. Charles Stewart, F.R.S., F.L.S., exhibited and made remarks 

 on the egg and oviducal gland of Scyllium catulus, and on the 

 nature of the egg-shell of Sphcnodon. 



The following papers were read : — 



1. -'On the Palate of the Xeognathte." By W. P. Pycraft, 

 A.L.S. 



2. " Eedescriptions of Berkeley's Types of Fungi. — Part II." By 

 George Xassee, F.L.S. 



May 24th, 1901. 



Anniversarij Meeting. 



Prof. S. H. YixES, F.R.S., President, in the Chair. 



The Minutes of the last Meeting were read and confirmed. 



Messrs. Thomas Fulton Bourdillon and Lawson Sant Wright 

 were admitted FeUows of the Society. 



The President then announced that since the last Meeting of the 

 Society His Most Gracious Majesty the King, in a letter received 

 from General Sir Dighton Probyn, which was read, had signified 

 his consent to become the Patron of the Society, and would be 

 graciously pleased to inscribe his royal signature in the Society's 

 Charter Book, an announcement which was received with accla- 

 mation. 



The President further announced that the Society's collection of 

 memorials of distinguished naturalists had been recently enriched 

 by a presentation from Prof. Alfred Xewton, F.P.S., F.L.S., of the 

 gold watch which had belonged to the late William YarreD, a 

 former Yice-President of the Society. The announcement was 

 received with much satisfaction, and on the motion of the President 

 it was resolved that a cordial vote of thanks be conveyed to the 

 donor. 



The Auditors' Eeport having been, presented by Mr. Henry 

 Groves, the Treasurer thereupon made his Annual Financial State- 

 ment, duly audited as shown on p. i8. Eef erring to the 

 resolution which had been passed at the last Anniversary Meeting 

 on the subject of the large amount outstanding for arrears of sub- 

 scriptions, he stated that the Council proposed the following 

 alteration of the Bye-laws subject to its confirmation at a general 

 meeting of the Society : — 



Chapter II. — Section IX. to be repealed and instead thereof 

 to substitute the following : — 



" IX. In the month of Xovember in each year the Council 

 shall cause to be suspended in the Library of the Society a 



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