X PKOCEEDINGS OF THE 



Tor removal from the Council. 

 AV. T. T. Dyer, Esq., J. E. Jlarting, Esq., \(. V. Hicro, Esq., 

 J. D. Hooker, C.B., M.D., J. J. Weir, Esq. 



For election into tlie Council. 

 J. G. Baker, Esq., "W. B. Carpenter, M.D., Henry Lee, Esq,, 

 W. Iv. Parker, Esq., S. J. A. Salter, M.B. 



Tlie Ballot for the Officers having closed, the President 

 appointed the same scrutineers to examine the lists and report 

 therou ; the votes having been counted and rep orled to the 

 President, lie declared the following to be elected, viz. : — Presi- 

 dent, Prof. Gr. J. Allman, M.D. ; Treasurer, J. Gwyn Jeffreys, 

 LL.D. ; Secretaries, Frederick C'urrey, M. A., and 8t. Greorge 

 Mivart, Esq. 



After the delivery of the President's Addres.s, it was moved 

 by Dr. Hooker, seconded by IMr. Grote, and carried unanimously, 

 That the thanks of the Society be given to Dr. Allman for his 

 excellent Address, and that he be requested to allow it to be 

 printed. [The Address was printed in the .Tournah Zoologv, 

 xiii. 2G1-30-5, Xo GO. J 



June 1st, 1S7G. 



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 nominated Mr. Bentham, Mr. Busk, Dr. Car- 

 penter, and Dr. Jeffreys, Vice-Presidents for the ensuing year. 



Thomas Higgins, Esq., and William Hope Boixlth, Esq., were 

 elected Fellows. 



Mr. Bull, F.L.S., exhibited living plants of Liberian and Ara- 

 bian Coffee. 



Mr. Jackson, xV.L.S., exhibited samples of Liberian and Mocha 

 Coffee, also of Coffcea steno^diylla ; likewise a series of Photographs 

 illustrating the Cultivation of Coftee in Central America. 



The following papers were read : — 



1. " On the Origin of Floral yEstivation." By the Eev. George 

 Heuslow, M.A., F.L.S. 



2. " On Glandular Bodies on Acacia sphcerocepliala and Cecro- 

 pia peltata, serving as Food for Ants." By Francis Darwin, M.B., 

 F.L.S. 



3. "On a Collection of Ferns formed by Mr. Pool in the Li- 

 terior of Madagascar." By J, G. Baker, F.L.S. 



4. "Lichens from Madagascar collected by Mr. Pool." By 

 the Rev. J. M. Crombie, M.A., F.L.S. 



5. " ^Xotice of new living Crinoids belonging to the Apiocri- 

 nidce:' By Prof. C. Wyville Thomson, F.L.S. 



G. " Notice of some peculiarities in the Mode of Propagation 

 of certain Echinodernis of the Southern Sea." By Pi*of C. 

 "VVyville Thomson, F.L.S. 



