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acclimatized plant. Each year since I have worked with the 

 ear iSt ripelg seeds of the previous year expenmentmg and 

 ZtL them in many places, but always with the one idea of 

 hastening the crop-as being the only chance of making it grow 

 ha his country. In this I have succeeded to some extent, for 

 u^,e eas my first plants in 1914 did not ripen until November 

 28th, this last year they had reached a corresponding degree of 

 ripeness early in September- a difference of two u)onths. 



Mr H R Darlington asked what was the percentage of 

 oil The lecturer repUed that the percentage of oil was 18 to -1 ; 

 and then proceeded to give the use to which the Bean was put, 

 wlch account was supplemented by Mr. H. N. Eidley, who 

 "entLued the Soy and ''Bean Cheese " of the East, and remarked 

 that the plant flourished best in a dry climate rather than a moist 

 one. He also detailed the fermentation ot the bean into com- 

 mercial soy. 



March 2nd, 1922. 



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

 in the Chair. 



The Minutes of the General Meeting of the 16t.h February, 

 1922, 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. 



Mr. Rowland Maurice Richards, M.B.E., A.R.C.S., was admitted 

 a Fellow. 



Prof.Lucien Cuenot, Nancy; Prof. Gustave Gilson, Brussels; 

 Prof Jakob Wilhelm Ebbe Gustav Leche, Stockholm ; and Dr. 

 Benjamin Lincoln Robinson, Harvard, were proposed as ioreign 

 Members. 



The certificate in favour of Surendra Nath Bal, Ph.C, 

 M.Sc. (Mich., U.S.A.), was read for the second time. 



The following candidates were elected by ballot :— 

 Miss Margaret Collins; Robert Gurney ; Miss Flora Amelia 

 Gordon; Prof. George Matthai, M. A. (Cantab.) ; Pror^ Edward 

 Hindle MA PhD.; Herbert Bennett Williamson; Frederick 

 Berry -Lewis Butler; Miss Isabel Soar, Ph.D. (Lond.) ; Frank 

 Howard Lancum, F.Z.S., F.E.S. ; and Clive Errol Lord. 



Mr H N Dixon exhibited a specimen of Burmese Amber, 

 with a moss included in it, probably a species of ILjpmcUndron, 

 C. Muell. 



