128 PEOCEEDINGS OF THE 



April 15th, 1886. 



W. T. TniSELTON Dyer, C.M.G., F.E.S., Vice-President, 

 in the Chair. 



The Minutes of the last Meeting were read and confirmed. 



Rochfort Connor, Esq., was elected a Fellow. 



Specimens of so-called "Madrepore Marble" from Iowa 

 (U.S.A.), which contained abundance of a species of Stromafo- 

 pora, were exhibited for Mr. G. A. Treadwell. 



Mr. E. A. Heath showed living examples of Dendrohium densi- 

 Jlorum and 7). snavissimum ; and Mr. J. G. Baker laid before 

 the Fellows drawings of new and remarkable Ferns in illustration 

 of the Roraima Report. 



The following papers were read : — 



1. " On some new G-enera and Species of African Curculionidae." 

 By Francis P. Pascoe, F.L.S. 



2. " Botany of the Eoraima Expedition of 1884, being Notes on 

 the Plants observed by Everard im Thurn ; the Determinations 

 and Descriptions of new Plants by Prof. Oliver, F.R.S., F.L.S. , 

 and others.'' (Communicated by W. T. Thiselton Dyer, C.M.G., 

 F.L.S.) 



3. " List of Fungi from Queensland and other parts of Aus- 

 tralia; with Descriptions of New Species. — Part III." By 

 Christopher E. Broome, F.L.S.. and tlie Rev. M. J. Berkeley, 

 F.R.S., F.L.S. 



May 6th, 1886. 



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



The Minutes of the last Meeting were read and confirmed. 



Prof Henry Marshall Ward was elected a Fellow. 



The President alluded to the loss the Society had met with in 

 the somewhat sudden death of Prof Thomas Spencer Cobbold, a 

 Fellow of old standing, and who had contributed many important 

 papers to the Society's Journals and Transactions, his latest 

 being now in the press. Dr. Cobbold had bequeathed to the 

 Society's Library 60 handsomely bound volumes, chiefly rare and 

 valuable Monographs on his special subjects of Parasites. The 

 President then moved — " That a special vote of thanks be ac- 

 corded to Mrs. Cobbold and her Family for the donation from 

 her husband, our late much respected Fellow," which Resolution 

 was carried unanimously by acclamation. 



The President announced that the following xluditors for the 

 Examination of the Treasurer's Accounts had been nominated 

 by the Council: — 



