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as soniH botanists .still believe iu it, additional evidence was adduced 

 showing that the organisms desenbed bv him could not possibly 

 have been the zoospores of Lammaria but must have been colour-" 

 less monads. Tiie Laminariacea) thus show distinct alternation of 

 generations: the plant is the sporo])hyte; reduction of chromosomes 

 takes place in the sporangium ; there are two kinds of gameto- 

 pliytes — a male and a female, and the difference in size between 

 the generations is exceedingly great. The sporophyte may l)e 

 gigantic, as compared with other algse, whereas the gametophvte 

 is microscopically small. 



In the discnssion which followed. Dr. D. H. Scott, F.R.S., 

 Prof. n. li. Gates, Dr. Marion Delf, Dr. Lily Batten (visitor), and 

 the President took part, the author replying. 



May 24th, 1922. 



Anniversary Meeting. 



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

 in the Chair. 



The Minutes of the General Meeting of the 4th May, 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. 



Mrs. Alice Sophia Bacon, B.Sc. (Loud.), was admitted a 

 Fellow. 



Certiiicates were read for the second time in favour of Cecil 

 Victor Boley Marquand, M.A. (Cantab.), and Charles Turner, 

 F.C.S. 



Major Charles Hunter, M.Sc. (Dnrh.), and William Nowell, 

 D.l.C, were proposed as Fellows, 



The Treasnrer made his Annual Eeport on the Accounts of the 

 Society, and the Statement (see pp. 24-26), duly audited, was 

 received and adopted. 



The General Secretary reported that since the last Anniversary 

 the following had died or their deaths been ascertained, namely : — 



12 Fellows. 

 Prof. William Beecrof t Bottomley. Dr. Walter George Kidewood. 

 Prof. George Simonds Boulger. William D. Eobinson-Douglas. 

 The Rt.Hon. Henry John Moreton, Rev. Canon Frederick Charles 



Earl of Ducie, P.C, G.C.V.O. Smith. 

 John Firminger Duthie. John Thomas Norman Thomas. 



Dr. John Jlarley. Major Charles Vipan, D.S.O. 



Sir John Kirk, G.C.M.G., K.C.B. Eev.EdwardAdrianWoodrulfe- 



Peacock. 



