lilNNEAN SOCIETY OF LONDOJf. 



The second communication was a paper by Prof. G. C. Bourne, 

 F.E.S., on "The iianiiiidse, a Study in Carcinology '*' ; and in the 

 absence ot: the author, was read by ProF. E. fci. Groodrich in 

 abstract. 



Dr. W. T. Ciihnan, r.R.S., cdiitributed a few furtlier remarks. 



January 19th, 1922. 



Dr. A. Smith Woodwabd, F.E.S., President, 

 in the Chair. 



The Minutes of the General Meeting of the loth December, 



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 Mere ordered. 



Khubchand Isardas Thadani, B.A.gr. (Bomb.), M.Sc. (Texas), was 

 proposed as a Pellow. 



Certificates in favour of the following were read for the second 

 time:— Miss Edith Philip Smith, B. A. (Oxen.), and JNIiss Elaine 

 Mary Eees, B.Sc.(Lond.). 



The following were elected Fellows : — 



Murray Ross Henderson ; Miss Kathleen Bever Blackburn, 

 M.Sc. (Lond.); Frederick Albert Mitchell-Hedges, F.R.Gr.S.; 

 Willis Openshaw Howarth, M.Sc. ; and Benjamin Millard 

 Griffiths, M.Sc.(Birm.). 



The proposed alteration in Ch. I. § 1 of the Bye-Laws in- 

 creasing the maximum number of Fellows from 710 to 800 was 

 put to the ballot and carried. The said section now runs as 

 follows : — 



Chap. I. Section 1. The number of Fellows shall be limited 



to Eight hundred, exclusive of Honorary Members, Foi'eign 



Members, and Associates. The method of Election shall be by 



Ballot. 



The President announced that on the 2nd and 16th of March, 



1922, Ballots for Fellows would take place. 



Dr. A. B. Rendle, F.R.S., Sec.L.S., sl>owed a piece of the wood 

 of Orites excelm, R. Br. (family Proteacese), one of the Australian 

 Silky Oaks, sent by Mr. T. Steel, of vSydney, N.S.W. The tree, 

 which is a native of northern New South Wales and Queensland, 

 is of unique interest from the deposits of aluminium succinato 

 which occurs in cavities of the wood, xlluminium is very rarely 



