LTNNEAN SOCIETY OF LONDON. 27 



February 16th, 1882. 



Frank Ceisp, LL.B., Treas. and Vice-President, in the Chair. 



The Minutes of the last Meeting were read and confirmed. 



A circular letter from the Eoyal Society of N. S. "Wales was 

 read, announcing that prizes would be given for the best essays 

 on certain subjects in 1882 and 1883, some being on the natural 

 history of Australia. 



Mr. John Badcock exhibited a supposed Fungus obtained in 

 Epping Forest. Mr. Cliarles Stewart afterwards gave his reasons 

 for supposing it to be the zoogloea stage of Monas termo. 



Dr. Cobbold drew attention to male and female specimens o£ 

 Ascaris transfuga found in the leg of a Brown Bear in Transyl- 

 vania. Hitherto these parasites had only been found in the in- 

 testinal canal. 



Mr. A. Grote showed Geaster fornicatus from Maidenhead. 



The following papers were read :— 



1. " Potato-disease, and the Theory of Fungoid Parasitism." 

 By A. Stephen Wilson. Communicated by Prof. Trail, F.L.S. 



2. "On the Shells of Aden." By Lieut. J. F. Cockburn. 

 Communicated by Prof. Bayley Balfour, F.L.S. 



March 2nd, 1882. 

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

 The Minutes of the last Meeting were read and confirmed. 



Col. Richard Henry Beddome, Thomas Bonner Chambers, Esq., 

 George Cheverton, Esq., The llev W. H. Dallinger, C. D. Ekmau, 

 Esq., Prof. W. Fream, Eev. Eichard Hooper, C. Dubois Larba- 

 lestier, Esq., Eev. E. P. Murray, and Charles Vipan, Esq., were 

 elected Fellows. 



Prof. P. M. Duncan exhibited, under the microscope, the 

 pollen-tubes of Crocus, and Mr. Charles Stewart the ovule of the 

 same genus. 



Mr. C. F. "White exhibited a series of drawings of the pollen 

 of various plants. 



Dr. T. S. Cobbold showed drawings of pollen-tubes oi Portulaca 

 oleracea, received fi-om Mr. Krutsclmitt of New Orleans. 



The following papers were read :— 



1. " Eemarks on the Structure and Habits of the Coral-reef 

 Annelid, Palolo viridis.'" By the Eev. Thomas Powell, F.L.S. 



2. " Contribvition to the Lichenography of New South Wales." 

 By Charles Knight, F.L.S. 



3. " Contributions to the Ornithology of New Guinea." Part 



