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The President then declared the Meeting Special (according 

 to the Charter and Bye-Laws) for the purpose of electing a 

 Councillor in the room of Mr. Gr. Bentham retired. 



The President further appointed Dr. R. C. A. Prior, Mr. H. 

 C. Sorby, and Mr. H. T. Stainton, Scrutineers ; and announced 

 that the Ballot-Box would be kept open until 9 o'clock. 



The Resolutions of Council of ]S"ovember 25th, 1880, relative 

 to proposed alterations of Bye-Laws (to be balloted for at the 

 Evening General Meeting, January 20th, 1881), were read for 

 the second time. 



Dr. Thomas Boycott exhibited a series of microscopical speci- 

 mens and sections illustrative of the growth of the fruit of the 

 Orange. 



Dr. Maxwell Masters afterwards exhibited an example of the 

 so-called " Kohl Rabi," in which development of side-shoots took 

 place in consequence of injury to the terminal bud. 



Dried Syrian Figs were shown by Mr. Percival de Castro, 

 and inquiry made of the Fellows as to their species or other in- 

 formation, it being intended to introduce their cultivation into 

 the South of France ; but authentic published data concerning 

 this very excellent variety were scanty. 



The following papers were read : — 



1. " The Theory of the Growth of Cuttings ; illustrated by 

 Observations on the Bramble (Hubus fruticosus) T By Francis 

 Darwin, F.L.S. 



2. " On the Means by which Leaves place themselves at Right 

 Angles to the Direction of Incident Light." By the same. 



3. " On the Land-Molluscan Genus Durgella, Blanf , with 

 Notes on its Anatomy and Description of a new Species." By 

 Lieut.-Col. H. H. Godwin-Austen, F.R.S., F.L.S. 



The Ballot having closed, the Scrutineers reported that Mr. 

 Charles Baron Clarke had been duly elected a Member of 

 Council. 



January 20th, 1881. 



The Rev. J. M. Ceombie, M.A., in the Chair. 



The Minutes of the last Meeting were read and signed. 



The Resolutions of Council of November 25th, 1880, relative 

 to proposed alterations of the Bye-Laws, which had been read at 

 the General Meetings of the 2nd and IGth December 1880 re- 

 spectively, were again read paragraph by paragraph, and suc- 

 cessively voted for by Ballot and confirmed by the Fellows of the 

 Society present, excepting the alterations and amendments in 

 Section 2 of Chapter VIII., which were not confirmed. 



There were exhibited for the Rev. J. Gould three portfolios of 



