liv PRUCKEDIXGS OF THE 



March 4th, 1880. 



Prof. Gr. J. Allmax, M.D., F.R.S., Presideafc, in the Chair. 



The Minutes of the last Meeting were read and signed. 



S. D. Bairstow, Esq., J. T. Carrington, E-iq., Prof. P, Martin 

 Duncan, M.B., E. M. MidJleton,Esq., S. 0. Ridley, Eiq., and T. 

 Cbarters AVlute, Esq., were elected Fellows. 



Mr. Middleton exhibited two adult Skulls of Bahirussa alfarus, 

 Less., from Borneo, both distinguishable by the remarkable small- 

 ness of their tusks. 



Dr. Giinther brought forward two deep-sea fishes obtained 

 during the ' Challenger ' expedition, viz. Echiodon and Scopelus, 

 to illustrate two kinds of luminous mctameric organs first disthi- 

 guished by Dr. Ussow, and designated as the '• lenticular " and 

 "yZa«(/«Zar " kinds. AYhllst admitting t!ie great morphological 

 resemblance of the former to an eye, Dr. Giinther gave n'asuns 

 for showing that their structure is not opposed to the view that 

 they, like the glandular kinds, are producers of light, and that 

 probably this production of luminosity or liglit is subject to the 

 ■will of the fish. 



Mr. J. Jenner Weir, on behalf of Mr. Edward A. Nevill, showed 

 the stufted head of a Prong-buck {Antilocapra americana), shot by 

 the latter in the Rocky Mountains, August 187(3. On the median 

 nasal region of this specimen what appeared to be a short uu- 

 branched third horn was developed. • 



The following papers were read : — 



1. " On Codiolum grecjarium, A. Braun, a new British Alga 

 discovered at Teignmouth by the Rev. R. Cresswell." By E. M. 

 Holmes, F.L.S. 



2. " On the Hebridal Argentine." By Dr. Francis Day, 

 F.L.S. 



March 18th, 1880. 



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



The Minutes of the last Meeting were read and signed. 



R. G. Wardlaw Ramsay, Esq., and Duckinfield Scott, Esq., 

 were elected Fellows. 



The President said : — " Before entering on the regular business 

 of the Meeting, it becomes my melancholy duty to announce the 

 death of Mr. Thomas Bell at the age of 87, Mr. Bell was the 

 oldest Fellow of the Society, having been elected into it in the year 

 1815. He liad held the Presidential Chair for many j'ears ; and 

 under his judicious and able guidance the Society had marvel- 

 lously advanced in prosperity. He was a distinguislied zoologist. 



