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such as " Who wrote lliat?" by givin<]; the writer's name to each 

 label or comment, wherever possible, the Linnean letters affording 

 an invaluable help to identitVing handwriting. The JMS. has been 

 drawn up for reference in after years ; it includes the inter- 

 pretation of many signs used by Linnajus, the meaning of wliicli 

 had been lost for more than a century, but was now rediscovered. 

 Lantern-slides in explanation of these points were shown. (See 

 Supplement.) 



Mr. Ja-Mes Groves presented a paper on Charophyta collected 

 by Mr. Thomas B. Blow in Ceylou. He prefaced his reuuirks by 

 referring to the great services Mr. Blow had rendered in making 

 large collections of these plants in the course of travels in many 

 parts of the world ; and to the great beauty and excellence of the 

 specimens, some of which were exhibited, due to Mr. Blow's care 

 and attention in floating them out, in spite ot' the work having 

 often to be done under very difficult conditions. 



.Mr. Blow gave some particulars of the districts visited on each 

 occasion, and of the means of transit, much of which had to be 

 accomplished over rough roads by bullock-cart at a very slow pace, 

 and stated that many of the specimens -were obtained from tanks 

 which had been in use when large tracts of country, which are 

 now lying waste, were in cultivation. 



Miss Hilda M. Coley show(Kl thirty drawings of succulent 

 plants from the collection of Mr. W. C. Gr. Ludford, of Four Oaks, 

 Birmingham, chiefly of FhyUocactus, Cereus, Echinocactus, and 

 3Iamillana, with certain Cape plants as Aloe, Gasteria, Haivortliia, 

 and Crassula. 



Dr. A. B. Kendle commented oji these admirable drawings. 



November 17th, 1921. 



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

 in the Chair, 



The IMinutes of the General Meeting of the 3rd November, 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. 



Certificates for the following were read for the second time : — 

 Hugh Fraser jMacmillian ; Frederick Albert Mitchell-Hedges : 

 Willis Opensliaw Howartii, M.Sc. ; Benjann'n IMillard Grifliths, 

 M.Sc.(Birm.); Miss Margaret Collins, B.Sc.(Syd.); Robert Gurney, 

 M.A.; Miss Flora Amelia Gordon; Prof. George Matlhai 

 M.A. (Cantab.); Prof. Edward Hindle, M.A., Ph.D., A.E.C.S. ; 

 Herbert Bennett Williamson; Frederick Berry-Lewis Butler; 

 Miss Isabel Soar, Ph.D. (Loud.) ; Frank Howard Lancum, F.Z.S, ; 

 Clive Errol Lord ; and Sydney Garside, M.Sc. 



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