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G-odolphin Osborne, Esq., D. Petrie, Esq., and GTeorge Thom, 

 Esq., were elected Eellows. 



The President announced from tlie Chair the receipt of three 

 letters, viz. : — (1) The Elizabeth Thompson Science Fund (Stam- 

 ford, Connecticut) of $25,000, to be appropriated to Scientific 

 Investigations, " not already otherwise jn'ovided for ;" applica- 

 tions to be forwarded to Dr. C. 8. Minot, 25 Mount Vernon Street, 

 Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A. The first grant to be made in 

 January 1886. — (2) Prize of 500 francs, founded by Augustin 

 Pyramus de Candolle, for the best monograph of a genus or a 

 family of plants. MSS. to be sent to the President de la Societe 

 de Physique et d'Histoire naturelle de Geneve, Switzerland by 

 the 1st October, 1889.— (3) The Eoyal Society of New South 

 Wales, Sydney, offer medals and money prizes for original re- 

 searches, among others, on Chemistry of Australian Grums and 

 Eesins, and on Marine Plora of Port Jackson, by 1st May, 1886, 

 and on Infusoria of Australia by 1st May, 1887. 



The Secretary exhibited for Mr. Buysman of Middleburg, 

 Holland, a preparation of the floral parts of Aconitum Na- 

 pellus, L. 



Mr. Vincent Ind Chamberlain, F.L.S., exhibited and made 

 remarks on a species of Trapdoor Spider and its nest, obtained 

 in California. 



Dr. Charles Cogswell showed oil-paintings of Eugenia lamhos, 

 L., and Casparea porrecta, drawn by Miss E. Gray in Bermuda. 



The following papers were read : — 



1. " Contribution to the Study of the Relative Effects of Dif- 

 ferent Parts of the Solar Spectrum on Transpiration in Plants." 

 By the Eev. George Henslow, F.L.S. 



2. "Notes on Parasites collected by the late Charles Darwin." 

 By Prof. T. Spencer Cobbold, F.L.S. 



3. " On the Castilloa elastica of Cervantes, and some allied 

 Rubber-yielding Plants." By Sir J. D. Hooker, C.B., F.L.S. 



4. " On Variations in the Form of the Cirri in certain Co- 

 matulae." By P. Herbert Carpenter, F.R.S. (Communicated by 

 W. Percy Sladen, Sec. L.S.) 



5. " Colombiau Species of the Genus Diahrotica. — Part I." By 

 Joseph S. Baly, F.L.S. 



December 17th, 1885. 



Frank Crisp, LL.B., Treasurer and Vice-President, 

 in the Chair. 



The Minutes of the last Meeting were read and confirmed. 

 Dr, Maxwell Masters showed a branch with leaves and fruit of 



