LIISTSrEA]!f SOCIETY OV LONDOIf. 1 3 



For the Council :— Mr. Frank Crisp and Mr. W. S. Dallas :— 

 Which, having been put to the vote, were unanimously agreed 

 to by the Fellows present. 



The Secretary exliibited, for Dr. Maxwell Masters, a branch 

 of a Japanese Birch grown in England to show the beauty of 

 the bark ; and there was also shown a gnaur from the trunk of 

 a Cedar of Lebanon. 



Mr. Charles Stewart exhibited an ovum of Helix Jicemastoma, 

 remarkable for its great size relatively to that of the animal. 

 He also showed the Grenerative Organs, peculiar in having the 

 retractor muscle of the penis attached to the extremity of a short 

 and larger spermatophoral gland ; the prostatic portion of the 

 common duct was exceedingly large, the uterine being devoid of 

 the pouched character found in Helix aspera. 



Mr. Thomas Christy made some remarks on a new India- 

 Eubber tree from West Africa ; and Mr. Holmes also showed 

 a species of Strychnos from the same region. 



The following papers were read : — 



1. " Synopsis of the Indian Species of Atidrosace." By George 

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



2. " Descriptive Catalogue of the Species of Cellopora col- 

 lected by the ' Challenger ' Expedition." By George Busk, 

 E.E.S., E.L.S. 



May 24th, 1881. 



Anniversary JSleeting. 



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



The Minutes of the last Meeting were read and confirmed. 



The Treasurer (Mr. Frederick Currey) then read his Annual 

 Heport, stating that financially the Society had continued pros- 

 perous. 



The Senior Secretary then read his EejDort ; showing that 

 since the last Anniversary eleven Fellows had died, viz. : — 



Fellows (11). 



C. J. H. Allen, Esq. 

 E. H. Alston, Esq. 

 John Blackwall, F.E.S. 

 H. Bamsay Cox, Esq.* 

 John Gould, F.E.S. 

 Gerard Krefft. 



Dr. J. Lauder Lindsay. 

 A. Eeginald Pryor. 

 Dr. J. D. Moore. 

 Dr. George Suche. 

 Arthur Veitch, Esq.f 



* See ' The Entomologist ' (1880), vol. xiii. p. 248. 

 t See ' Gai-dener's Chronicle ' (1880), vol. xiv. p. 440. 



