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tary. The Secretary shall read the proposal at the next Meeting imme- 

 diately after the declaration of the presents. The proposal shall then be 

 hung up in the Meeting-Room until the second Meeting after the reading 

 of the same, when it shall be put to the Ballot unless those who have 

 signed it shall agree to withdraw it. 



The present Section VII. of the printed Bye-Laws to be numbered 

 Section VIII. 



April 3rd, 1879. 



William Caeeuthers, F.E.S., Vice-President, in the Chair. 



The Minutes of the last Meeting were read and signed. 



Ferdinand Coles, Esq., W. A. Porbes, Esq., and N. S. Whitney, 

 M.B., were elected Fellows. 



The Vice-President then read fi'om the Chair for the second 

 time tlie proposed alterations and new Bye-Law (Chapter XIII. , 

 Section 7). 



Mr. W. T. Thiselton Dyer exhibited the inflorescence of Gyne- 

 riiim saccharoides, H. B. K., grown at Kew, but which had died 

 during the inclement winter-weather. Excepting through Mr. 

 Spruce's researches on the Amazons, little is known respecting 

 this handsome plant, which differs from the Pampas Grass in habit, 

 and is tropical like Maize &c. 



Dr. Henry Trimen, in dealing with the subject of the Myrrhs 

 of commerce and pharmacy, showed a unique specimen of Balsa- 

 modendron Myrrha, Nees. It was gathered by Hildebrandt in 

 Somali Land, 1873, and possesses few leaves and a single fruit ; 

 but the myrrh was seen exuding from the tree. The original 

 type specimens of B. Myrrha, collected by Prof. Ehrenberg in 

 Arabia, were also exhibited ; and, according to Dr. Trimen, Hilde- 

 brandt's late statement of their identity with the foregoing seems 

 well founded. Ehrenberg's other Myrrh-plant, the B. Ehren- 

 lergianmn, Berg, with his notes attached, and the B. PJayfairii, 

 Hook, fil., from Somali Land, with its gum called "Hotari," and 

 other examples of Myrrh and Bdellium were placed before the 

 Society. 



The following papers were read : — 



1. 'Account of a Peat-flood in the Falkland Islands." By 

 Arthur Bailey. Communicated by W. T. Thiselton Dyer, F.L.S. 



2. "Notes on Moquilea, with a Description of a new Species." 

 By John Miers, F.E.S., F.L.S. 



April 17th, 1879. 



Colonel Grant, C.B., F.E.S., Vice-President, in the Chair. 



The Minutes of the last Meeting were read and signed. 



S. M. Curl, Esq., M.D., and G. C. Druce, Esq., were elected 

 Fellows. 



