lii PEOCEEDINOS OF THE 



January 15th, 1880. 



Trnf. a. J. Ai.i-M.vN, M.D., F.R.S., President, in the Chair. 



The Minutes of the last Meetinj^were read and signed. 



John Poland, Esq., 11. Darell Stephens, Esq., and Prof. Allen 

 Thomson were elected Fellows. 



Tlionias Jeffery Parker, Esq., was elected an Associate. 



Mr. Allen J. Hewitt exhibited specimens of Moths of the genus 

 Anaphe, and a large common-web or community of Cocoons re- 

 cently imported from Old Calabar (West Coast of Africa). The 

 moths had emerged from the cocoons of the sac-like body on 

 reaching this country. 



Mr. J. G. Baker made a few remarks on a monstrous Thistle 

 obtained by the Rev. T. A. Preston of Marlborough. In this 

 specimen of Carduws crisp its the capitula were abnormally nume- 

 rous and aggregated in secondary heads, as in Echinops. 



There was exhibited, on behalf of Mr. James Forsyth, the 

 Tibia and Tarsus of a Dinornis maxim us, obtained at a depth of 

 4 feet from the surface of the soil while making a road at Omaru, 

 New Zealand. 



The following papers were read : — 



1. " Remarks on the Birds and Mammals introduced into New 

 Zealand." By H. M. Brewer, Hon. Sec. AVanganui Acclima- 

 tizatiou Society, New Zealand. Communicated by Dr. Murie, 

 F.L.S. 



2. " Synopsis of the Aloinea3 and Tuccoidea>." By J. Gr. 

 Baker, F.L.S. 



February 5th, 1880. 



William Carhuthers, Esq., Vice-President, in the Chair. 



The Minutes of the last Meeting were read and signed. 



Mr. Charles Stewart showed a microscopic stained section of 

 the Ovary of Hyacinthus orientalis with the intra-nuclear net- 

 work in the cells of the ovules. 



Dr. Francis Day exhibited examples of Salmonidse, some of 

 which had been reared under natural, and others under unnatural 

 conditions. A Salmo JvJitinalis, which had passed its existence 

 in the Westminster Aquarium, had the head preternaturally 

 elongated and a very narrow suboperculum, thus showing a great 

 contrast to examples reared from the same batch of imjjortcd eggs, 

 and kept in a wild state in Cardiganshire. 



Mr. R. Irwin Lynch brought under notice a mounted specimen 

 of the Pods of Acacia homaJophylla, each seed being attached by 

 a very long bright-red funicle. 



