XVI pnocEEDixas or the 



The tbllowiug papers -were read : — 



1. " On the Habits of Auts, Bee?, aud AVasps."— Part IV. 

 By Sir Johu Lubbock, Bart., F.K.S , F.L.S. 



2. " Aspect of the Vegetation of llodriguez." By Isaac Ba\'ley 

 Balfour, D.So., E.L.S. 



3. " Tropical Fenis collected by Prof. Stecre iu 1870-75." By 

 M. "VV. Harrington, Esq., M.A. Communicated by J. G. Baker, 

 F.L.S. 



4. " Enumeration of Fungi collected during the Expedition of 

 JLM.S. ' ChalUuiger ' " (3rd notice). By the Eev. M. J. Berkeley, 

 M A., F.L.S. 



February 15tb, 1877. 



Prof. (Jr. J. Allman, M.D., F.E.S., President, in the Ciiair. 



The Minutes of the last Meeting were read and signed. 



AVilliam Burns, Esq., Edmund Thomas G-arduer, Esq., Mark 

 W. Harrington, Esq., J. W. 8. Meiklejolm, M.D., the Eev. John 

 Stobbs, and Sir Charles William Strickland, Bart., were elected 

 Fellows. 



Mr. Lister, F.L.S., exhibited under the Microscope, and made 

 some remarks on, specimens of the Plasmodium or Amoeboid 

 stage of Myxomyceics, 



The following papers Avere read : — 



1. " On the Root-stock of Marattia fraxi)iea, Sm." By John 

 Buclianau, Esq., F.L.S. 



2. " On Algfc collected by Dr. Isaac B. Balfour, F.L.S., at the 

 Island of Eodriguez." By George Dickie, M.D., F.L.S. 



3. " On a new example of the Phyllodocid {Anaitis rosea)." 

 By \V. C. M'Litosh, M.D., F.E.S.E., F.L.S. 



4. " On certain new forms of Actinariie dredged in the Deep Sea 

 by H.M.S. ' Cliallenger,' with a Description also of certaiu new 

 Pelagic surface-swinnning species." By H. N". Moseley, M.A. 

 Communicated by Dr. Murie, F.L.S. 



5. " On the Pouch of Marsupials." By E. D. Fitzgerald, 

 FL.S. 



March 1st, 1877. 

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

 The Minutes of the last Meeting were read aud signed. 



Eobert Gillies, Esq., Herbert Goss, Esq., A. C. L. G-. GiintheT, 

 M.D., and Matthew Moggridge, Esq., were elected Fellows ; and 

 Dr. M. C. Cooke was elected an Associate. 



Mr. Hiern, F.L.S., exhibited and made some remarks on the 

 embryo of Diospyros Einhryopteris, Persoon, upon which species 

 Gacrtncr founded liis genus Emhryopteris. 



