24 PROCEEDINGS OF THE 



December 15th, 1881. 



George Busk, F.E.S., Vice-President, in the Chair, 



The Miuutea of the last Meeting were read and confirmed. 



W. H. CoflBn, Esq., E. Milners, Esq., and H. Parkes, Esq., were 

 elected Fellows. 



Dr. T. S. Cobbold exhibited a large G-uinea-worm {Dracuncu- 

 lus) taken from a pony in Madras by Vet. -Surg. Frederick Smith. 

 Only one previous instance o£ the occurrence of this parasite in 

 the horse had been mentioned, and its authenticity had been 

 doubted by Fedschenko and others. 



Mr. G. S. Boulger showed a set of papier-m&che models of 

 insectivorous plants for teaching-purposes, made under the super- 

 intendence of Prof. Cohn by Herr Brendel of Breslau. 



Mr. T. Christy called attention to the volume of the Annual 

 Beport of the Commissioner of A griculture for 1879, issued at 

 Washington, containing much valuable information on the insects 

 and other agents destructive to crops. 



The following papers were read : — 



1. " On some Points in the Morphology of the Temnopleuridce.''^ 

 By Prof P. Martin Duncan, F.E.S., F.L.S. 



2. " On a new Species of Gossypium from East Tropical Africa." 

 By Dr. Maxwell T. Masters, F.B.S., F.L.S. 



3. " Note on Abies PattonUr By W. E. M'=N"ab, M.D. 



4. " On the Digastric Muscle, its Modifications and Functions." 

 By G. E. Dobson, M.B., F.L.S. 



5. "TheMolluscaof H.M.S. ' ChaUenger ' Expedition."— Parts 

 XI. and XII. By the Eev. E. Boog Watson, B.A., F.L S. 



January 19th, 1882. 

 Sir John Lubbock, Bart., F.E.S., President, in the Chair. 

 The Minutes of the last Meeting were read and confirmed. 

 The President announced the death of Mr. Eichard Kippist, 

 aged 70, who died on the 14th January, 1882. He had spent 

 upwards of fifty years in the service of the Society, at first as 

 Prof. Don's Assistant and afterwards as Librarian himself. 



The following resolution was then put from the Chair, and 

 carried unanimously, that 



" Tlie Fellows in Meeting assembled, on learning of the death 

 of Mr. Kippist, desire to record their sense of the efficient and 

 faithful service rendered to the Society by its former Libi'arian 

 during more than half a century." 



A list was read of 189 volumes and pamphlets presented to the 

 Library as a Donation from the family of the late Mr. Frederick 



