LHWEAJN' SOCIETY OP LOXDON. 7 



March IStli, 1883. 

 Fbajstk Obisp, LL.B., Treas. and Vice-President, in the Chair. 

 The Minutes of the last Meeting were read and confirmed. 



The following papers were read : — 



1. " On Simondsia paradoxa, and its probable Affinity with 

 Sphcerularia homhi." By Dr. T. Spencer Cobbold, F.E.S., 

 F.L.S. 



2. " On the Moths of the Family Urapterygidse in the British 

 Museum." By A. G. Butler, F.L.S. 



3. "On theMollusca of H.M.S. 'Challenger' Expedition."— 

 Part XVIII. By the Eev. R. Boog Watson, F.L.S. 



April 5th, 1883. 



Sir John Kiek, K.C.M.G-., Vice-President, in the Chair. 



The Minutes of the last Meeting were read and confirmed. 



Eichard Manlifte Barrington, Esq., George Edward Comer- 

 ford-Casey, Esq., Frederick Victor Dickins, Esq., and Edward 

 Cambridge Phillips, Esq., were elected Fellows. 



Mr. E. M. Holmes exhibited Birch-tree sap which had exuded 

 from a cut branch 1 inch in diameter at the rate of 4 oz. per 

 hour during the night and double during the day, before the 

 expansion of the leaf-buds. The sap had been analyzed by Dr. 

 Attfield and recorded in the ' Pharmaceutical Journal.' 



Wood from the pier-piles of West Hartlepool was exhibited on 

 behalf of Mr. E. Morton Middleton, displaying the ravages of 

 Limnoria lignorum. 



The following papers were read : — 



1. " The India-rubber Tree, Landolpliia oivnriensis, of the Gold 

 Coast." By Alfred Moloney, Esq. (Communicated by B. Daydon 

 Jackson, Sec. L.S.) 



2. " On a new Species of Infusoriau of, or allied to, the genus 

 Gerda. By F. W. Phillips, F.L.S. 



3. " On the Genus Hemicarex and its Allies." By Charles 

 Baron Clarke, F.E.S., F.L.S. 



April 19th, 1883. 



Sir John Lubbock, Bart., President, in the Chair. 



The Minutes of the last Meeting were read and confirmed. 

 Frederick Howard Collins, Esq., Thomas Walker Coffin, Esq., 



