XINNEAN SOCIETY OP LONDON, V 



March 16tb, 1876. 

 Prof. G-. J. Allman, M.D., F.E.S., President, in the Chair. 

 The Minutes of the last Meeting were read and signed. 



The President read a letter from Mr. Van Voorst, P.L.S,, 

 offering for the acceptance of the Society two volumes of speci- 

 mens of British Alga) arranged and named by the late Prof. 

 Harvey. The special thanks of the Society were directed to be 

 presented to Mr. Yan Voorst for this valuable donation. 



Edward E. Alston, Esq., and David Blair, Esq., were elected 

 Fellows. 



The following papers were read : — 



1. " On the Plastron of the Grangetic Mud-Turtle, 'Emyda dura, 

 Bueh." By John Anderson, M.D., E.L.S. 



2. " On the Eate of Growth of the Flower-stallc of tlie Hya- 

 cinth." By A. W. Bennett, M.A.,F.L.S. 



8. " On the Hygroscopic Mechanism by which certain Seeds 

 are enabled to bury themselves in the Grround." By Francis 

 Darwin, M.B., F.L.S. 



4. " On the Licliens of Antarctic America, collected by Dr. 

 E. 0. Cunningham during the Voyage of the ' Nassau.' " By the 

 Eev. J. M. Crombie, F.L.S. 



A discussion on Prof de Bary's recent researches on the 

 Potato disease, commenced at the last Meeting, was resumed and 

 closed, 



April 6th, 187G. 

 Geoege Btjsk, F.E.S., Vice-President, in the Chair, 

 The Minutes of the last Meeting were read and signed. 

 Agar Padley Agar, Esq., the Eev. Eobert Francis Clarke, 

 William E. Guilfoyle, Esq., Dr, Henry Alleyne Nicliolson, 

 John Scully, Esq., and William Waterfield, Esq., were elected 

 Fellows. 



The Chairman called attention to the Index to the First Series 

 of the Transactions now completed; and the special thanks of the 

 Society were given to Mr. Bentliam for the great labour he had 

 bestowed on its preparation, 



A letter was read from Lady Smith, now in her 103rd year, 

 announcing the donation of a copy of Passaeus's * Hortus floridus,' 

 Utrecht, 1614. 



Dr. Day, F.L.S,, exhibited specimens of a Madras-bred Trout ; 

 also a Kingfisher, Aleedo lengalensis, caught and drowned by 

 the closing of the valves of a species of Unio which the bird had 

 attempted to seize, 



