LINIfEAN" SOCIETY OP LOISTDOIf. 5 



2. " On the Ear-bones of Bhi/tina SteUeri." By Albau Dorau. 

 (Communicated by Professor Flower, F.R.S., F.L.S.) 



3. " On the Glands of Hypericace^." By J. R. Grreen. (Com- 

 municated by Dr. S. H. Vines, F.L.S.) 



4. "On the Stipular Grlands of Coprosma Bauer iana.''^ By 

 Walter G-ardiuer. (Communicated by Dr. S. H, Vines, F.L.S.) 



5. " On Starch-grains in the Lacteal Cells o£ Eiiphorhia." By 

 M. C. Potter. (Communicated by Dr. S. H. Vines, F.L.S.) 



January l7th, 1884. 



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



The Minutes of the last Meeting were read and confirmed. 



Arthur Stuart Pennington, Esq., was elected a Fellow. 



Dr. R. C. A. Prior exhibited and made remarks on a series of 

 useful Timbers from British Gruiana. These were all hard 

 woods, among which may be mentioned: — the " Grreenheart " 

 {Nyctandra Bodiei) ; the " DucaliboUy," a rare red wood, used 

 in the colony for furniture ; " Wamara," a very hard- wooded 

 tree, 60 feet high, used by the natives for clubs &e. ; " Letter 

 Wood " (Brosimiim Aubletei), useful for inlaying and making 

 very choice walking-sticks ; " Hyowa-boUy " (OinjjJuflobmm 

 Lamberti), a rare tree, 20 feet high, known commercially as 

 Zebra wood . 



Mr. H. N. Eidley showed a fasciated branch of Holly from 

 Herefordshire, in which certain of the flattened branches were 

 curiously interwoven and each terminated by a number of 

 growing points. 



Dr. Murie called attention, on behalf of Mr. Frederick Piercy> 

 to a presumed portrait of Linnreus in oil, doubtfully supposed to 

 be original. 



The following specimens were exhibited under the microscope, 

 in illustration of Mr. Michael's paper: — Bisparipes homhi, inert 

 fully-grown nymph, showing the adult female fully formed in- 

 side ; also male, female, and latter from underside of the new 

 species B. homhi. 



The following papers were read : — 



1. " A Eeview of the Tuber-bearing Species of Solaimm." By 

 J. G. Baker, F.E.S., F.L.S. 



2. " The S'l/pojjus -question, or Life-historv of certain Acarina.^' 

 By A. D. Michael, F.L.S. 



3. " The Structure and Affinity of Sphceria pocuJa, Schweinitz." 

 By Dr. M. C. Cooke, A.L.S. 



4. " Notes on some Burmese Desmidiefe." By W. Joshua, 

 F.L.S. 



5. " Contributions to South-African Botany." By Harr 

 Bolus, F.L.S. 



