Ivi PltOCEEDINQS OF THE 



2. *' Ecmarks on IMr. F. E. Harman's Keport on the Coifee- 

 leaf DiseaHe." By J. Cameron, 1\L..S., of Bangalore. 



3. " Notice of Marine Crustaceans collected by Mr. P. Geddes 

 at Vera Cruz." By Edward J. Miers, F.L.S. 



April 15tli, 1880. 



Tlie Eev. G-eokoe IIenslow, E.L.S., in the Chair. 



The Minutes of the last Meeting Avere read and signed. 



Mr. Samuel H. AVintle was elected a Fellow. 



Mr. Charles Stewart exhibited and made remarks upon an 

 anomaly in an example of a species of Ecliinoderm, Amllypneustes. 



There was likewise exhibited by Dr. James Murie a series of 

 microscopic sections of Pearls, showing great variation in struc- 

 tural detail. 



The following papers w^ere read : — 



1. "The MoUusca of the ' Challenger ' Expedition."— Part V. 

 By the Eev. E. Boog AVatson, F.L.S. 



2. " On new Aroidca^ v.itli observations on other Known 

 Forms."— Part I. By N. E. Brown, A.L.S. 



3. "A Note on an Abnormal (Quadriradiate) Specimen o? Am- 

 hlypnenstes formosus." By Prof. F. JellVey Bell. Communicated 

 by Dr. Murie, F.L.S. 



May 6th, 1880. 



H. T. Staikton, Esq., F.E.S., in the Chair. 



The Minutes of the last Meeting were read and signed. 



M. C. J. de Maximowicz, Professor Metschnikoft", and Dr. Stras- 

 burger were elected Foreign Members. 



The Chairman announced that Dr. Thomas Boycott bad ex- 

 pressed his desire to withdraw as an Auditor of the Society, and 

 that Mr. E. M^Lachlan had been recommended by the Council 

 to take his place. The vote of the Fellows present was there- 

 upon taken, and Mr. M'^Lachlan duly elected. 



Mr. Thomas Christy read a letter from a correspondent, Mr. 

 Blacklaw, of St. Paulo, Brazil, in which it was mentioned that 

 several attempts to rear the Liberian Coifee {Coffea liberica) in 

 the district at difierent altitudes in diticrent seasons and under 

 difterent conditions, both under cover and in the open air, had all 

 been unsuccessful. 



The following papers were read : — 



1. " ^;otes on Alga" from the Amazons and its Tributaries." 

 By Prof G. Dickie, F.L.S. 



2, '"On an Unusual Form of the Genus Hemijpholus, Agass." 

 By Prof. P. M. Duncan, F.L.S. 



