ItXNEAX SOCIETY O? LOKBON. tl 



Mr. Charles Tuexkr, F.L.iS., sent a supply of microscope slides 

 of Desmids from Wales, and Chcetoceros from IS^aples plankton, for 

 distribution. 



February IStli, 192:1 



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

 in tlie Chair. 



The Minutes of the General Meeting of the 1st February, 

 1 923, were read and confirmed. 



Miss Elizabeth Marianne Bhickwell, M.Sc. (Liverp.), was 

 admitted a Fellow. 



The certificates in favour of 8eevaratnam Arunachalam, Miss 

 Ethel Katheriue Pearce, F.E.8., Edward Wylhe Fenton, M.A., 

 E.8c.( Aberd.), F.E.S., and Prof. Kobert Scott Troup, CLE., M.A., 

 were read for the second time. 



Francis Miranda was proposed as a Fellow. 



Dr. A. D. Imms communicated and explained by the help of 

 lantern-slides a paper by Mr. A. M. Altson, "On the method 

 of oviposition and the egg of the Beetle Lyctus brunueus, Stepli." 



Prof. E. S. Goodrich, Sec.L.S., made a few additional remarks 

 and Dr. Imms replied. 



Mr. R. Paulson exhibited 68 species in 27 genera of Lichens 

 collected by Mr. V. S. Summerhayes, of the Oxford University 

 Expedition to Spitsbergen in 1921. They were derived chiefly 

 from Bear Island, a mass of limestone rock, and Prince Charles 

 Foreland, of siliceous rock. The Gulf Stream influences both 

 islands ; most of the Lichens were thoroughly healthy, and had 

 been carefully dried. 



Miss A. Lorrain Smith and Dr. Eendle, Sec.L.S., contributed 

 fm'ther remarks, and Mr. Paulson replied. 



Mr. F. lIoWARu Laxcum followed with the following account 

 of curious oviposition by a specimen of the Clouded Yellow 

 Butterfly, CoUas edusa : — " I do not know that these few notes 

 have any particular scientific value, but I think that the incident 

 which they desci'ibe is sufflcieutly remarkable to be placed on 

 record. 



"In early September of last year I had seven captured female 

 specimens of Colias edusa, which I kept for the purpose of 

 obtaining ova. Of these, six duly deposited ova in fair numbers. 



