XXXviii PROCEEDINGS OF THE 



The following papers were read : — 



1. " Notes on Euphorbiacete." By G. Bentham, F.E.S., F.L.S. 



2. " On tlie Existence of Carpesium cernuum, Willd., in Queens- 

 land." By L. A. Bernays, F.L.S. 



3. " Notes on Cleistogamic Flowers, chiefly of Viola, Oxalis, 

 and Impatiensr By A. W. Bennett, M.A., F.L.S. 



4. " Descriptions of New Hemiptera." By F. Buchanan "White, 

 M.D., F.L.S. 



5. " On the Absorption of Eain and Dew by the Green Parts 

 of Plants." By the Eev. George Heuslow, M.A., F.L.S. 



November 21st, 1878. 



J. GwTN Jeffreys, LL.D., Vice-President, in the Chair. 



The Minutes of the last Meeting were read and signed. 



Thomas Davidson, Esq., and Frederick James Faraday, Esq., 

 were elected Fellows. 



Dr. W. P. Kesteven exhibited specimens of Melocactus, one of 

 which had developed additional lobes while kept in a dry place in 

 his own house at Holloway ; the other a transverse section of the 

 flowering spike of Melocactus communis. 



Mr. Irwin Lynch exhibited tendrils of Vitis cuspidata and other 

 species, to illustrate his paper. 



The following papers were read : — 



1. " On Branch-tubers and Tendrils in Yitis gongylodesr By 

 E. Irwin Lynch. Communicated by Dr. Murie, F.L.S. 



2. " Preliminary Eeport on the Mollusca of the ' Challenger ' 

 Expedition." — Parts 1. & II. (viz. the genera Dentalium^ Siplio- 

 dentalium, and CaduJtis). By the Eev. E. Boog Watson, F.L.S. 



3. " On the Symplocacea?." By John Miers, F.E.S., F.L.S. 



4. " Notes on Algae from Lake N'yassa, E. Africa." By Prof. 

 Dickie, F.L.S. 



December 5th, 1878. 



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



The Minutes of the last Meeting were read and signed. 



George Francis Dowdeswell, Esq., Thomas Hanbury, Esq., 

 Arthur Hammond, Esq., Joseph Sidebotham, Esq., William 

 Thomson, Esq., and Charles Augustus Wright, Esq., were elected 

 Fellows. 



Mr. George Murray, F.L.S., exhibited a specimen of ILyrjro- 

 pTtorus Wyniiicp, Berk. & Broome, from Bridlington, Yorkshire. 



Dr. Bayley Balfour, F.L.S., exhibited and made some remarks 

 on a Myxoniycetes {Heterodictyum ?) new to Britain. 



