^® I'HOCEEDlJfGS OF THE 



June 2nd, 1921. 



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

 in the Chair. 



Tiie Minutes of tl.e Anniversary Meetiiig of tbe 24th May. 

 1921, were read and confirmed. ^ 



Tiie report of the Donations received since tlie h.st Meeting 

 was lai.l before the Fellows, and the thanks of the Society to thi 

 several Donors were ordered. 



The President announced that he had appointed the following 

 A*? ^^-.V.^'^-P^'^'^'denls for the ensuing year:— Mr. E. T. Browne, 

 Mr. U. t. Lacaita, Mr. Hoeace W. Monckton, and Lord Roth- 



SCHILD. 



Major Staiiley Smyth Flower was admitted a Fellow. 



Lekshminarayanapuram Subramania Subramaniam, Murray 

 Koss Hendrrson, and Professor Walter Garstang, M.A., D Sc 

 Associate''*''''' ^'"°^°'^'^ '"''' ^^"o"'«' ^nd Miss Matilda Smith as an 



Certificates ir. favour of Miss Winifred Mary Ailsa Lomas, 

 B.Sc and William R.e Sherriffs, M.A., D.Sc. (Aberd.), were read 

 tor the second time. 



V ^HiT i'"^-^^' ^;^^^-' ^^•^•' ^•^'•' W''^^'^'" Frederick Bumsted, 

 ±^R M.S., Reginald Ernest Massey, Prof. Rajkumar Sen, M.Sc, 

 Wilhatu Edward Hollows, Santi Prosad Sen Gupta, B.Ag. 

 l.R.H.S Shanker Ganesh Sharngapani, B.Ag., Donald AVard 

 Cutler, M.A John Noel Milsum, F.R.H.S., and John Hvacinth 

 Power, F.Z.S., were elected Fellows. 



Prof. Garstano opened a discussion by reading a paper on 

 Recapitulation. He urged that Haeckel's Biogenetic Law was 

 essentially a theory of ancestral heredity. The adult was the 

 creative phase, and "like produced like." Hence ancestors created ; 

 heredity transmitted; and development repeated the order of 

 creation. But a generalized recapitulation bv ontogeny of the 

 essential grades of ancestral structure was' possible* without 

 involving successive adult images in the ontogeny; and the mor- 

 phological test to apply to these rival theories was whether the 

 stages ol ontogeny did, or did not, more closelv resemble successive 

 atlult organisations than the corresponding formative sta^res of 

 ancestral ontogeny in cases where the ancestry was sufficiently 

 known. This morphological test was invariably in favour of what 



