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xhe work in question consists of 96 volumes, containing 2000 

 coloured figures, many of which are not to be found elsewhere. 

 Of the Honzo Zutu only two or three copies are known to be 

 complete in the original native manuscript form, as only pare 

 was published at Tedo (Tokio) in 1828. 



[The entire memor.mdum, as drawn up by Mr. F. V. Dickins, 

 is published in the 'Journal of Botany' for May 1887, pp. 147- 

 148.] 



The President exhibited and made remarks on a spike of Maize 

 obtained from an ancient grave at Ancon, Peru, and on samples 

 of pre-historic Wheat from ancient British and Eomano-British 

 burial mounds near Salisbury and Winidebury, AVilts, together 

 with wheat, lor comparison, from Dunstable market, mounted by 

 Mr. Worthmgton tx. Smith, P.L.S. 



The following papers were read : — 



1. " Experiments on the Sense of Smell in Dogs." By Greorge 

 J. Eomanes, I'.E.S., P.L.S. 



2. "On a new Instance of Apospory in Polysticlium angulare, 

 Y&T. jjulcherrimiim.'''' By Charles T. Druery, I'.L.S. 



8. " On Apospory and Allied Phenomena." By Prof. F. O. 

 Bower, P.L.S. 



The President having announced that H.R.H. the Prince of 

 Wales had expressed a wish to belong to the Society (Bye- 

 Laws, Chap. III. Sect. 1), proposed from the Chair the Prince as 

 an Honorary Member ; and by open vote His Koyal Highness 

 was unanimously elected. 



January 20th, 1887. 

 William Carruthees, F.E.S., President, in the Chair. 

 The Minutes of the last Meeting were read and confirmed. 



John Benbow, Esq., and Fiennes Stanley Wickliam Cornwallis, 

 Esq., were elected Fellows. 



It was announced from the Chair that H.E.H. the Prince of 

 Wales had officially inscribed his name on the Eoll of the 

 Society. 



The President presented to the Society a portrait in oil of 

 Francis Masson, tlie botanical collector, who was elected F.L.S. 

 1796. (Cf. Journ. Bot. xxii. 1881, pp. 111-128.) 



Prof. Bayley Balfour exhibited specimens of the so-called 

 " Ginger-beer " Plant, with slides showing its microscopic struc- 

 ture. He pointed out that, although well known to many 



