iv niOCEEDINOS OF THE 



Di'. Cobbolcl exhibited specimens of a ucw liumau fluke 

 {Distoma sinense) discovered by Prof. M'Couuell, of Calcutta. 



The following papers were read : — 



1 "Additional Observations on iVnts." By Sir John Lubbock , 

 Bart, M.P, F.ll.S, F.L.S. 



2. " On the Cloacal Bladders and on the Peritoneal Canals in 

 Chelonia." By John Anderson, M.D, F.L.S. 



A letter from P. C. Owen, Esq, Director of the South Ken- 

 sington Museum, was read from the Chair, calling the attention 

 of the Society to the approaching Loan Exhibition of Scientific 

 apparatus ; and requesting that any Members who might be willing 

 to contribute, would furjiish at their early convenience, on special 

 forms, descriptions of the objects proposed to be lent. 



March 2ud, 1876. 



Prof. Cr. J. Allman, M.D., E.E.8., President, in the Chair. 



The Minutes of the last Meeting were read and signed. 



Before proceeding to the business of the Meeting, the President 

 called attention to the serious loss sustained by the Society by 

 deaths since the last Meeting, of John Joseph Bennett, P. E,.S., who 

 for twenty years had filled the ofiice of Secretary, during great 

 part of which time he had been the sole Editor of the Society's 

 publications, and of M. Adolph Brougniart, one of the oldest 

 Eoreign Members of the Society. 



Sir A^ictor Alexander Brooke, Bart, Elchard Benyon Croft, 

 Esq.,Ealph Grooding, M.D., Erederick John Horniman, Esq., and 

 W. Percy Sladen, Esq., were elected Fellows. 



Mr. Carruthers, F.L.S., exhibited specimens of Phyiojyhthova 

 infesfans, Pytliiim vcxans, and other parasitic fungi prepared by 

 Prof, de Bary. 



Mr. Grwyn Jeftreys, V.P.L.S., exhibited a specimen of the great 

 Felt- or Blanket-Sponge, Askonema setuhahnse, obtained on the 

 Telegra])h-cablc off" Cape Finisterre, on the 24ith August, 1875, 

 by Sir James Anderson. 



Prof. Seeley, F.L.S., exhibited a mould of the cranium of Ornl- 

 ihocheirus, and various fragments of the skeleton. 



The following papers were read : — 



1. "On a new Genus of Turneracea? from Eodriguez." By I. 

 Baylf y Balfour, D.Sc, F.L.S. 



2. " On Pollen." By Michael Pakenham Edgeworth, F.L.S. 



3. " List of the Musci and Ilepaticce collected in Kerguelen's 

 Island by the Ecv. A. E. Eaton, A.M." By William Mitten, 

 A.L.S. 



4. " Notes on Algae found by the Eev. A. E. Eaton at Kergue- 

 len's Laud." By George Dickie, A.M., M.D., F.L.S. 



