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December 4tli, 1879. 

 Prof. G-. J. Allmak, M.D., F.E.S., President, iu the Chair. 

 The Minutes of the last Meeting were read and signed. 



John Cameron, Esq., Major Collett, H. B. Spotton, Esq., J. G. 

 Otto Tapper, Esq., Gr. M. Thomson, Esq., Sir Samuel Wilson, 

 and Samuel "Wright, Esq., were elected Fellows. 



Mr. W. Carruthers exhibited a bottle of Pteropocis, Spiralis 

 refroversiis, obtained in great abundance on the surface of the 

 water of the Gareloch,Eoss-shire, Scotland, in July 1879, by Dr. 

 John Grieve. A Letter from the latter was read, wherein he 

 gave a description of some of the habits of these animals as ob- 

 served immediately after their capture ; and he likewise men- 

 tioned other facts in connexion with Flustra foliacea and F. 

 truncaia. 



Dr. Maxwell Masters exhibited specimens of Spruce and Silver 

 Eirs, as illustrating points in his paper. 



The following papers were read : — 



1. " On the Internal Structure and Movements in Leaves of 

 Conifers." By Maxwell T. Masters, M.D., E.E.S., E.L.S. 



2. " On a Synthetic Eorm of Ophiurid from the Atlantic, the 

 observations therein being founded on a specimen dredged by 

 Dr. G. C. Wallich in the Voyage of H.M.S. ' Bulldog,' 1800." By 

 Prof Martin Duncan, E.E.S. Communicated by Dr. Murie, E.L.S, 



3. " On Indian Begonias." By C. B. Clarke, M.A., E.L.S. 



December ISth, 1879. 

 Prof G. J. Allma>^ M.D., E.E.S. , President, in the Chair. 

 The Minutes of the last Meeting were read and signed. 

 Henry Seebohm, Esq., was elected a Eellow. 

 A. Dee Bartlett, Ei-q., Nicholas E. Brown, Esq., and Erederick 

 Herschel "Waterhouse, Esq., were elected Associates. 



Mr. B. Daydon Jackson exhibited a complete series of the 

 various (5) editions of Dillenius's ' Historia Muscorinn,' Oxford, 

 1741, and its reprint Edinburgh, 1811, from the Society's Library 

 and his own, in illustration of tlie paper to be read by the Eev. 

 J. M. Crombie. 



Photographs of Botanical subjects were shown by Mr. W. A. 

 Shoolbred on behalf of Mr. E. H. Worsley-Benison of Chepstow, 



The following papers were read : — 



1. "On the Lichens of Dillcnins's 'Historia Muscorum,' as 

 illustrated by his Herbarium." By the Eev. J. M. Crombie, 

 M.A., E.L.S. 



2. " On certain remarkable Sense-Organs among the Ily- 

 droids." By Prof Allman, M.D., E.E.S., Pres. L.S. 



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