LIXNHAN SOCIETY OF LONDON". r 



The report of the Donations received since the last Meeting was 

 laid before the Fellows, and the thanks of the Society to the 

 several Donors were ordered. 



Mr. William Harold Pearsall, M.Sc. ( Mancii.) and Mr. Tom 

 Eussell Groddard were admitted Eellows. 



The following certificates were read for the second time : — Mr. 

 Albert Edward Mills and Mr. yamuel Lyon. 



The following were proposed as Fellows : — Herbert Sutcliffe. 

 A.E.C.S., Edward Jocelyn Wortley, M.B.E., F.C.8., William 

 Small, M.B.E., M.A., B.Sc, AVilliam Frederick Bumsted, 

 F.R.M.S., and Keginald Ernest Massey. 



The following were elected Fellows : — Rowland Maurice 

 Eiehards, M.B.E., Louis Blaise, Vicomte de Sibour, F.Z.S., 

 Kustom Hormasji Dastur, B.Sc. (Bombay), John William Bodger, 

 M.P.S., Yedaranyesvara Vaidyanatha Eamana-Sastrin, Ph.D., 

 Lieut.-Col. Anthony Wolley-Dod, George Peddie Miln, J. P., 

 Henry Baker Lacey, Miss Ethel Spratt, D.Sc, and Major Arthur 

 Dorrien-Smitli, D.S.O. 



The President .stated that Prof. U. Newsiead, F.E.S., A.L.S., 

 was unable to deliver his lecture on Uganda biology as announced, 

 but iioped to give it at a later date. 



Prof. E, S. (jOODRICH, F.R.S., Sec.L.S., gave a demonstration of 

 the Hymeijopterous Parasites of graiu-infesting Insects, under a 

 series of microscopes. 



The second comuiunication was by Mr. L. V. Lestee-Garland : 

 " Plants from Darfur collected by Capt. Lyne;^, K.N., with 

 remarks on their Geographical Distribution," and was illustrated 

 b}^ a selection of the plants tlieinselves and photographs of the 

 district. 



The discussion which followed was carried on by the President, 

 Dr. A. B. Eeudle, F.E.S., Sec.L.S., Mr. C. C. Lacaita, Mr. E. G. 

 Baker, and Mr. T. A. Dymes, the author replying. 



The last communication was by the General Secretary : " The 

 Norseuian in Canada in a.d. 1000, with the plants they reported." 



He explained that his remarks were limited to the introductory 

 part of a lecture prepared four years previously, which had been 

 postponed delivery. Starting from the paper read by Dr. Fridtjof 

 Nansen before the Eoyal Geographical Society on the Gth Nov- 

 ember, 1911, he quoted from recent papers by Daniel Bruun and 

 H. P. Steensby in 'Meddelelser om Gronlaiid,' vols, xvi., xvii. in 

 1918, and a slight sketch by Prof. 11. O. Juel, in the current 

 volume of the.' Svenska Linne-Siillskapets Arskrift,' p. 61. The 



