xliv PEOCEEDINGS OF THT. 



The Vice-President, on behalf of the Council, proposed Dr. 

 Thomas Boycott and Dr. R. C. A. Prior for the Council, and 

 Mr. W. S. Dallas and Mr, J. Edmund Harting to represent tlie 

 Society, as Members of the Committee for auditing the Treasu- 

 rer's Account ; and a show of hands having been taken, these 

 gentlemen were declared to be elected. 



The alterations in the Bye-Laws (Chapter XTII.) proposed by 

 the Council on the 20th of INIarch, having been hung up in the 

 Common Meeting-Eoom of the Society and read by the President 

 or Vice-President in the Chair, according to the terms of the 

 Charter, at the last two successive General Meetings of the Society, 

 were put to the Ballot, and rejected by the Fellows at large. 



The following papers were read : — 



1. " Contributions to the Ornithology of New Guinea." — Part 

 V. By R. B. Sharpe, P.L.S. 



2. " On the Occun-ence of Gadus macrocephalus at the Mouth 

 of the Thames." By Dr. Francis Day, F.L.S. 



3. " Zoological Memoranda of Ni'le Land," By Dr. Murie, 

 F.L.S. 



May 1st, 1879. 



Colonel Geais't, C.B., F.E.S., Vice-President, in the Chair. 



The Minutes of the last Meeting were read and signed. 



J. E. Brown, Esq., Richard Rimmer, Esq., P. O'Shanesy, Esq., 

 were elected Fellows ; and Dr. Edward Bornet and Prof. H. G. 

 Eeichenbach were elected Foreign Members. 



The Vice-President called attention to a series of Botanical 

 Diagrams presented by the authors (Dr. Arnold and Carolina 

 Dodel-Port). 



Mr. Edward S. Morris of Liberia exhibited a quantity of husked 

 and unhusked Berries and ground Cofiee of the Cqffea liherica 

 grown by him near Monrovia. 



Mr. W. T. Thiselton Dyer showed a living example of the rare 

 and curious JVelwitschia mii'ahilis grown at Kew. 



There was also on the table a series of specimens to illustrate the 

 papers ow Linum and Wistaria by Mr. Meehan and the Rev. G. 

 Henslow. 



The following papers were read : — 



1. "Nutrition and Fertilization of Flowers." By T. Meehan. 

 Communicated by the Rev. G. Henslow, F.L.S. 



2. " Remarks on Meehan's Paper." By the Rev. G. Henslow, 

 M.A., F.L.S. 



3. " On a Restiaceous Plant from Cochin China." By M. T. 

 Masters, M.D., F.R.S., F.L.S. 



4. " On the Structure of the Pouched Rats of the genus Hete- 

 romys." By Dr. Murie, F.L.S. 



