LINNEATf SOCIETY OF LONDON. I3 



]\rarch 1st, 1923. 



Dr. A. Smith Woodwai!D, F.R.S., President, 

 in the Cliair. 



The Minutes of the General Meeting of the loth Fehruary, 

 1923, were read and confirmed. 



Major Charles lluuter was admitted a Fellow. 



The certificate in favour of Francis Miranda was read a second 

 time. 



The following were proposed as Fellows : — 



Clarence Tierney, D.Se. ; The Rev. Francis Eosslyn Courtenay 

 T3race, D.D. ; and Hemy Harwood Smith; as Foreign Member, 

 l)v. John Isaac Briquet, of Geneva; and as Associate, AVilliam 

 Barclay. 



The following were severally balloted for and elected Fellows : — 

 John Eoxbrough Xorman ; Major Robert Beresford Seymour 



Sewell, I. M.S., B.A. (Cantab.) ; Edward Arthur AVilson ; Seevar- 



atnam Arunaclialam ; Miss Ethel Ivatherine Pearce, F.E.S. ; 



Edu ard AVvllie Fenton, U.A., B.Sc. (Aberd.), F.E.S. ; and Prof. 



Robert Scott Troup, CLE., M.A. 



Mr. AsiiLKY H. Maude gave an exhibition of about 300 speci- 

 mens gathered from the South Tirol and the Dolomites, explaining 

 those regions by various maps and photographs shown by the 

 lanteru. 



Mr. J. N. Halbert, M.R.I. A., contributed a paper, entitled 

 " Notes on the Acari, with descriptions of new species,'' communi- 

 cated by Dr. W. T. Caiman, F.R.S., F.L.S., which was read in title. 



Mr. C. F. M. SwYNNERTON exiiibited a series of about sixty 

 lantern-slides, illustrating various aspects of African woodland 

 formations, displaying rain-forest, coppice, and thicket due to 

 grass-fires, the means of prevention from injury by such fires, 

 and the preservation of the forests by careful nurture. 



The President stated that the lecture on '• Botanic Illustratioa 

 in Colour"' announced for that evening had been postponed by the 

 lecturer, to permit of the display of the series of slides just 

 exhibited, as the author was starting on the 9th instant for East 

 Africa to rtisume his duties as Game-warden. 



