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crevices just as the Isopod passes through a crustacean stage 

 before becon.ing adapted to a parasitic life. In these tiTe 

 chvergeuce bet^veen the okl and the new u.ode of life takes place 

 la e, and the modification is in the -adult" stage only; but in 



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June 16th, 1921. 



])r. A. Smith Woodward, F.R.S., President, 

 in the Chair. 



The Minutes of the General Meeting of the 2nd June 19'>1 

 were read and confirnied. ' ~ ' 



The report of the Donations received since the last Meeting 

 was laid before the Fellous, and the thanks of the Society to the 

 several Donors were ordered. 



Mr. Albert Edward Mills, Mr. Henry Ball, and Mr. Arthur 

 Mayfield, were admitted Pellows. 



Miss Kathleen Bever Blackburn, M.Sc.(Lond.), was proposed 

 as a lellow. '■ ^ 



The following certificates were read for the second time-— 

 Lekshmniarayanapurani Subraniania Subraiiianiam, Murray Ross 

 Henderson, and Prof. Walter Garstang, M.A., D.Sc. (Oxon)- as 



an Associate, Miss Matilda Smith. \ /' 



Messrs. George Tertius Dickson, John Francis Donald Tutt 

 James Kobert Ainslie, James AValter AVHiite, Thomas Ilayfon 

 Mawson, Prof. Thomas Wibberley, and Charles Taborn, were 

 elected Pel Jo us. 



The first communication was by Mr. Alfred O. Walker, who 

 had sent from his garden a supply of capsules from one. plaiit of 

 Papnver nmbrosiun, hort., which botanists regard as a variety of 

 the Corn-poppy, P. Rhoeas, showing carpellody of the stamens. 

 The General Secretary showed an illustration of a similar occur- 

 rence in another variety of the same s|)ecies, P. Rhmts var. com- 

 mutatum, in Worsdell's ' Plant-teratology,' vol. ii. p. 182, pi. 45. 

 Dr. Rendie pointed out that the satellite carpels contained' im- 

 perfect ovules. Mr. Henry Ball and Mr. R. Paulson also took 

 (lart in the discussion. 



Mr. Wii,fi{ed Mark AV'ejsb exhibited a siiecimen of a wood- 

 louse rare in Britain, Ligidinm Jn/pnomm, which he had found in 

 Berkshire recently; its pre\ious records were Surrey in 1873 by 



