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Lt.-C.jl. J. H. Tull Wiilsli, Mr. J. AV. Bodger, Dr. E. J. 

 Salisbury, aiul Lord liotliscliild discussed the paper, the last- 

 named coiiimentiug on similar nianiFestatioiis in Fistacia Lentiscus, 

 the Terebinth, in certain parts of Algeria. 



The last paper, by Dr. H. ,T. Tileyaiii), on the wing-venatioii of 

 the Oriler Plectoptera or May-Hies, Avas postponed. 



November 30th, 1922. 



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

 in the Chair. 



The Minutes of the General Meeting of the 16th November, 

 1922, were read and confirmed. 



Certificates in favour of the following were read for the second 

 time : — 



Frederick Tom Brooks, M. A. (Cantab.) ; Eobert McCxillivriiy ; 

 Greorge Norman Buiiyard : and Montagu Charles Allwood, 

 F.R.H.S. 



Charles Chubb, M.B.O.L"., was proposed as an Associate. 



The alterations in the Bye-laws, read from the Chair on tiie 

 2nd and 16th November, were balloted for and accepted. 



Dr. A. B. Eendle, F.K.S., Sec.L.S., exhibited a visitors' book, 

 in use from 1778 to ISll, by Sir Joseph Banks, Bt., P. R.S., the 

 weight of the visitors being noted. The book contains the names 

 of many well-known botanists of tlie period and of other visitors to 

 Banks's herbarium and library. Some of the entries are in Banks's 

 hand, others are autograph ; many are by Jonas Dryander, who 

 was librarian to Banks from 1782 till his death in 1810. In several 

 cases the same person is recorded at different dates, anil the 

 variation in weight is curious and interesting. Banks was weighed 

 13 times, his weight increasing from 13st. 10 lbs. to 16st.onl-lth 

 April, 1811. 



The General Secretary commented on two names mentioned by 

 Dr. Bendle as occurring in the volume : (1) Sir Charles Blagden, 

 a noted physician and close friend of Banks, appreciated also by 

 Dr. Samuel Jolnison, whose " Blagden, sir, is a delightful fellow" 

 occurs in Boswell's 'Life of Johnson'; and (2) Prof, von Linne, 

 who was Banks's guest in 1782, and was present when Solauder 

 was struck down by apoplexy in that year ; the professor's weight 

 was 12 st. 3 lbs., which shows that he was a bigger man than his 

 father, the famous naturalist. 



A paper by Dr. II. J. Tillyaud on "The Wing-venation 

 of the Order Plectoptera or May-liies " was read in title by Prof. 

 E. S. Goodrich, P. U.S., Sec.L.S. 



