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The President commented on the difficidty of studyinf^ siiccnlent 

 plants excej)t when preserved in fluid, instancing Masson's spirit 

 specimens oi" MesemhryanlJiemiim, \Ahi('h were in the British 

 Mnseum (Xatural History) from the tiuK^ of Sir Joseph Banks, Bt. 



Mr. James Biiitten reft-rred to the j^reat amount of woi'k done 

 by Daniel Solander in tlie Banksian herbarium, but as most of the 

 new names he gave to plants were not accompanied by any pub- 

 lislied description, they had been superseded by later authors. 



Mr. J. Burtt-Davy then gave his paper on the " Geographical 

 Distribution of some Transvaal Leguminosa?," of which an abstract 

 is given on p. 66. 



Prof, Moss supported tlie abolition of the Kalahari Region as a 

 botanicnl province. Mr. H. IN". Ridley pointed out two sorts of 

 endemics — the first, as in the case of Bidipnocarjms, a genus of 

 sixty species in Malaya, with only one outlying species, each 

 having been evolved in its proper region ; and the second, endemics 

 which were simply survivals of a lost flora. Mr. J. Burtt-Davy 

 briefly replied. 



Prof. Moss gave an account of the presence of velaminous roots 

 in terrestrial orchids, especially noticeable in the orchid genus 

 Eidopliia, abundant at the Cape. Mr. II. ]Nr. Ridley and Mr. J. 

 Ramsbottom. Sec.L.S,, also spoke on the subject, and Prof. Moss 

 replied. 



Mr. J. R.v:msi50Ttom exhibited specimens of Cliolromyces mean- 

 dri/onnis, White Truffle, from Chelmsford. 



June 21st, 1923. 



Dr. A. B. Rexdi.e, F.R.S., President, 

 in the Chair. 



The Minutes of the General Meeting of the 7th June, 1923, 

 were read and confirmed. 



Mr. Robert Barr was admitted a Pellow. 



Certificates in favour of Laurence Delaney Cleare, jun., F.E.S., 

 Manaranpim ^lilra, M.Sc. (Panj.), and Hans Theodor Glissow, 

 were read ior the second time. 



Dr. Arthiu' Prancis George Kerr and Ralph Teience St. John- 

 Brooks, M.D., D.P.II., were proposed as Fellows. 



