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Mr. J. Hopkinson also proposed a vote of thanks to Dr. Murie 

 for his services in the Library, &c. The President having seconded 

 the motion, it was carried. 



The Senior Secretary read the Obituary notices of deceased 

 Tellows (see p. 90). 



June 18th, 1885. 



William Caeeuthees, F.R.S., Vice-President in the Chair. 



The Minutes of the Anniversary Meeting (11th June) were 

 read and confirmed. 



William Powell James, Esq., Prof. Eichard John Anderson, 

 Alfred Gribbs Bourne, Esq., James Brebner, Esq., Henry Deane, 

 Esq., Hugh Neville Dixon, Esq., E. Haviland, Esq., and Dr. 

 William Schlich, were elected Eellows. 



The Chairman announced that the President had nominated 

 Mr. Wilham Carruthers, Mr. Frank Crisp, Mr. W. T. Thiselton 

 Dyer, and Prof. William H. Flower to be Vice-Presidents for 

 the ensuing year. 



There were exhibited for Dr. Gorham specimens and sketches 

 illustrating the venation of the Myrtacese as a type of the vena- 

 tion in Pimpinella Saxifraga and P. magna, Umbelliferse. 



There was also shown for Mr. L. A. T. Eoberti some dimorphic 

 twigs from the same Beech Tree, and flowers yellow and lilac 

 from Gytisus Adaml. 



Prof. P. Martin Duncan showed specimens under the micro- 

 scope, and demonstrated on the blackboard the suj^posed 

 branchial structures found on the Tag of Gcelopleurus Maillardi. 



Mr. Frank E. Cheshire drew attention to some curious 

 specimens of albinism in males of Apis mellifica. In certain 

 cases the cornea was perfectly faceted, bixt no pigment existed 

 between the rods. The stemmata also were perfectly colourless. 

 In other instances the cornea of the compound eyes was not 

 faceted and pigment existed in small quantities, irregularly dis- 

 tributed. He believed this imperfect development was due to 

 defect in the Worker Bee. Micro-organisms were frequently 

 found growing amongst the spermatozoa stored in the recepta- 

 culum seminis, and he had traced as results thereof a liability to 

 hermaphroditism. 



Mr. Arthur Bennett exhibited four species of flowering plants 

 new to Britain, viz. : — (1) Schoenus ferrugineus, L., found July 

 1884 by Mr. Brebner in the neighbourhood of Loch Tummel, 

 Perthshire, a species whose continental distribution is quite in 



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