lO PROCEEDINGS OF THE 



Alternative Alterations. 



That Sections 4 and 8 of Chapter VIII. shall be repealed and the fol- 

 lowing substituted ; — 



SECTION 4. " Balloting-Lists shall be delivered to every Fellow who 

 shall ap|)ly for them ; and if any Fellow should not approve of the persons 

 therein named, but be desirous of giving his vote for some other person 

 or persons, he will strike his pen or j)cncil across the printed name or names 

 of the person or persons of wliom he may disapprove, and will write over 

 against such printed name or names, on the blank side left and prepared 

 fur the purpose, the name or names of the other person or persons for 

 whom he may be desirous to give his vote." 



Section 8. " If any List should contain more than the proper number 

 of names, or if any List of Officers should include the name of any person 

 not being a Member of the Council, such List shall be set aside, and not 

 taken any account of by the Scrutineers in casting up the number of Votes." 



April 7tli, 1881. 



GrEOBGE Btjsk, Esq., E.E.S., in tlie Chair. 



Tlie Minutes of the last Meeting were read and confirmed. 



William Fawcett, Esq., Eobert Scott, Esq., Artliur Walker, 

 Esq., and Dr. Andrew AVilson were elected Fellows. 



The proposed alterations of the Bye-Laws and alternative 

 alterations according to the Resolutions of Council of March 

 17th, 1881, were read for the second time from the Chair. 



Mr. E. Morell Holmes exhibited specimens of three British 

 Lichens {Lecanora aJhoJutescens, Lecidea rhagadiza, and Pertu- 

 saria spiJoinmiihodes) recently collected in Cumberland by the 

 Eev. M. Jolmson. He also drew attention to a series of articles, 

 including the regetable products, illustrative of the native manu- 

 factures of Madagascar, obtained by the Eev. Mr. Peake. 



Dr. Garston, on behalf of Prof. Flower, exhibited a pair of 

 Elephant's Tusks from the College of Surgeons' Museum Avhich 

 were surface-worn and encrusted with parasitic ova. 



A series of Bots and other Entozoa, illustrative of Prof. Cob- 

 bold's paper on the Parasites of Elephants, were shown during 

 the reading of the memoir in question. 



The following papers were read : — 



1. " On the Parasites of Elephants." By Prof. T. Spencer 

 Cobbold, F.E.S., F.L.S. 



2. " Monograph of the Indian Species of Primula" By George 

 Watt, M.B., F.L.S. 



3. " On the Green Colouring of the Hair of Sloths." By Dr. 

 H. C. Sorby, F.E.S., F.L.S. 



