LTKNEATf SOOTETT OF LONDON. 7 



February 21st, 1884. 

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

 The Minutes of the last Meeting were read and confirmed. 

 Alfred Prentice Young, Esq., of Bombay, and D. Sullivan, 

 Esq., of Victoria, were elected Fellows. 



Mr. E. Miller Christy brought before the notice of the Society 

 a series of Lepidoptera, Hymenoptera, &c., captured by him in 

 Manitoba, some of the Humble-Bees being supposed new to 

 science ; he also showed a collection of dried plants obtained by 

 him in the same region. 



Mr. W. T. Thiselton Dyer exhibited and made remarks on 

 Portions of Wreaths from tlie Coffin of the Princess Ugi Khomso 

 of the XXI. Egyptian Dynasty. Dr. Schweinfurth, the African 

 traveller, who had closely investigated these ancient garlands, 

 reports that they are composed of leaves of a Willow (Salix 

 Safsaf) and flower-heads of Cornflower (Genfaurea depressa), 

 with separate rayflorets and an acliene of C. depressa, besides 

 flowers of the Common Poppy {Papaver Blineas), with separate 

 flowers and capsules of the same plant. 



The following papers were read : — 



1. "The Cyperacese of the West Coast of Africa in the Wel- 

 witsch Herbarium." By H. N". Eidley, F.L.S. 



2. "On the Power of Penetrating the Bodies of Animals pos- 

 sessed by the Seed of Stipa spaHeay By E. Miller Christy. 

 (Communicated by A. W. Bennett, F.L.S.) See Abstract in 

 Appendix. 



3. " Contributions to the Flora of North Patagonia and the 

 adjoining Territory." By John Ball, F.L.S. 



4. " On some Structures liable to Variation in the Subfamily 

 Astrangiacese (Madreporaria)." By Stuart O.Eidley, F.L.S. 



March 6th, 1884. 

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



The Minutes of the last Meeting were read and confirmed. 



James Dallas, Esq., and Dr. Augustus Biirke Shepherd were 

 elected Fellows ; and Mr. William Hodgson, of Watermillock, 

 Cumberland, was elected an Associate. 



The President announced the receipt of a communication from 

 the Foreign Office through the Science and Art Department, 

 enclosing the Programme of a proposed International Ornitho- 

 logical Congress to be held at Vienna in the beginning of April, 

 under the patronage of His Imper. and Eoy. Highness the Crown 

 Prince Eudolph. The subjects to be discussed are : — I. Project 

 of an International Law for the Protection of Birds. II. On 

 the descent of the Domestic Fowl and the steps to be taken in 



