22 PROCEEDINGS OF TlIK 



whether infection could be carried by small mammals if the large 

 ones were exterminated; the identity or difference between 

 Trtipanosoma Brucei and T. rhodesit'nse, the latter producing the 

 worse attack ; the sudd was generally marginal and attached, very 

 rarely breaking off into detached islands loose in the streiim ; on 

 the actual banks of the river, mosquitoes {Mansonia nniformis) 

 abounded, but happily they did not travel inland. 



May 5th, 1920. 



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

 in the Chair. 



The Minutes of the General Meeting of the 21st April, 1921, 

 were read and confirmed. 



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. 



Capt. Bertram Hanmer Bunbury Symons-Jenne and Capt. 

 Francis James Stayner were admitted Fellows. 



Charles Taborn, F.E.H.S., and Walter Sydney Stevens were 

 proposed as Fellows. 



The following were submitted to the Ballot, and elected : — 

 As Fellows: Arthur Mayfield, INIrs. Bella Dytes Macintosh 

 MacCullum, M.A., D.Sc.(N.Z.), William John Phillipps, Herbert 

 Sutcliffe, A.R.C.S., Edward Jocelyn Wortley, M.B.E., F.C.S. ; 

 as Foreign Members : Prof. John Merle Coulter, Dr. Samuel 

 Grarman, Prof. Giovanni Battista Grassi, Prof. Louis Alexandre 

 JMangin, and Prof. Jean Massart. 



A vacancy in the list of Associates caused by the death of 

 Robert Allen Rolfe was announced from the Chair. 



Reports on collections from the Indian Ocean, for issue in the 

 Society's 'Transactions,' Zoology, vol. xviii. at the cost of the 

 Percy Sladen Trust, were read as follows, Xos, 2-9 being com- 

 municated by Prof. J. Stanley Gardiner, F.R.S., F.L.S. : — 



1. Prof. A. Dendy, F.R.S., F.L.S.— On Hexactinellid Sponges. 



2. Mr. C. G. La.mb. — Dij)tera: Asilidre, Dolichopodidic, etc. 

 t\. Dr. HuGK Scott. — Coleoptera: Scydma^nida?, etc. 



4. Mr. II. Gebien. — Coleoptera: Tenebrionida>. 



5. Dr. Max Bernhauer, — Coleoptfe'ra : Stapliylinidje. 



0. Dr. Hugh Scott. — Coleoptera: Distribution of Staphylinida\ 



7. Mr. S. ScHENKLiNG. — Coleoptera : Cleridte. 



8. Miss F. E. Jarvis. — Hydroids of the Western Indian Ocean. 

 f». Dr. C. J. VAN DER HoRST. — Madreporaria : Agariciidaj. 



