l6 riloCDEOIXGS OF THE 



read by the President, who Hxpluined the reasons which liad 

 obliged the Council to submit, these aUerations to a ballot by the 

 Fellows, and invited discussion. 



Prof. WiiTSs, F.R.S., commented on the proposed cliangcs, and 

 suggested a relerence to the Council, which was at a later stage 

 embodied as a motion ; he was followed by the Treasurer (wlio 

 ein])hasized the need ol' a strengtluMiing of the powers of the 

 Council in the matter of Fellows in arrear), iMr. J. C. 81ieiistone, 

 and Dr. A. 15. Jlendle, F.K.S., Sec. L.S. 



Tlu! Fellows i)resent then proceeded to ballot, and the votes 

 having been counted, the President declared that both proposed 

 alteration*! had beciu aj)|)roved b}' the l^'ellows ; as regards Sect. 2, 

 by 37 in favour and against, 49 Fellows being present, and 

 that Sect. had been approved by 37 in favour with 3 against, in 

 each case by a two-thirds majority of Fellows present. The 

 alterations were thereupon declared by the President as passed 

 by the Fellows. 



Prof. Weiss thereupon moved : — " That the Council be asked 

 to consider the question of a reduction of payment in the case of 

 Fellows who do not desire to take the publications," wOiich being 

 seconded by IVIiss M. Carson, was put to the vote by show of 

 hands, and carried. 



Prof. James S>r.\LL, D.Sc, F.L.S., then gave a lantern demon- 

 stration of "The Chemical Reversal of (}eotro|)ic liespouse in 

 Roots and Stems." (Printed as a pa[)er in ' Tlie New Phyto- 

 logist,' xix. nos. 3 & 4, 1920.) 



In the discussion which followed, Prof. Weiss, F.R.S., Capt. A. 

 W. Hill, Prof. V. 11. Blackmail, F.R.S., and Prof. E. S. Groodrich, 

 F.R.S., Sec.L.S., took part. 



April 15tl., 1^20. 



Dr. A. Smith Woodward, F.R.S., President, 

 in the Chair. 



The ^linutes of the General Meeting of the 18th March, 1920, 

 were read and coniirmed. 



The report of the Doiialions received since the last Meeting 

 was hiid b'^fore the Fellows, and the thanks of the Society to the 

 several Donors were ordered. 



The following were proposed as Fellows : — Mr. Raymond 

 Alfred Finlayson, and Mr. Tom Russell (loddard. 



Certificates in favour of the following were read for the second 

 j^i,„e:— Mr. Sydney Percy- Lancaster, Mr. Herbert William 



