2 PROCEEDTXOS OF THE 



been entirely removed, leaving the epidermis and subcutaneous 

 tissue only ; it is used as tinder by the Hottentots. 



Mr. E. A. AVobb exhibited the proliferous inflorescence of 

 Huhtis fruticosus, Ij., in Avhii-h the floAvers Avero represented by 

 elonj]fated axes densely covered with minute bracts, the apical 

 portions of which were fasciated. 



The following papers were read : — 



1. "Additions to our Knowledge of the Flora of North-Western 

 India." Bv Prof. George Watt, M.B., F.L.S. 



2. " On the Papilionidfe of South Australia." By J. G. Otto 

 Tepper, F.L.S. 



3. " Notes on a Collection of Plowering-Plauts collected by 

 Mr. L. Kitching in Madagascar." By J. G.Baker, F.E.S., F.L.S. 



November 18th, 1880. 



Egbert M'^Lachlais-, F.E.S., in the Chair. 



The Minutes of the last Meeting were read and signed. 



Lieut. -Col. H. H. Godwin-Austen was elected a Fellow. 



Dr. G. E. Dobson exhibited, under the microscope, a remarkable 

 parasitic Worm taken by him from the intestinal canal of a Bat 

 {Mefjadenna frons) from the Gold Coast. It was evidently 

 allied to Ptevi/godermafiies plaqiostoma, Wcdl, from the intestine 

 of the Long-eared Hedgehog {Erinaceiis otiritiis) ; though on 

 first examination he (Dr. Dobson) had been disposed to regard 

 it as a new genus, McfahdeUa. 



Dr. Cobbold exhibited five specimens of Disfoma crassinji, 

 Busk. He stated that the Chinese Missionary whose parasites 

 had been brought before the Society in 1875 had, on his return 

 to China, again become the victim of these large flukes ; and his 

 wife and daughter were also attacked, and all of them been com- 

 pelled to return to England. 



The following papers were then read and discussed : — 



1. "The Classification of Gasteropoda."— Part TI. By Dr. J. 

 Denis Macdonald, F.E.S. Communicated by Dr. G. E. Dobson, 

 F.L.S. 



2. " Note on a Proliferous Condition of Verhascum niffrum." 

 By the Eev. G. Henslow, F.L.S. 



3. " Novitates Capenses." By P. M'Owan and Harry Bolus, 

 F.L.S. 



4. "Australian Fungi."— Part II. By the Eev. M. J. Ber- 

 keley, F.E.S., F.L.S. 



