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A very fine case of feathers of the now extinct Moa was also 

 exhibited for Sir Walter Buller. 



Lord "Walsinpjham exhibited and made remarks on a living 

 plant of Datum as a notable example of vefi;etable repair. The 

 plant by accident was broken almost right across the stem. 

 After being bandaged the gardener put it carelessly away in an 

 outhouse, believing it sure to die. Some time after Lord Wal- 

 singliam found tlie plant, not dead or drooping, but showing fair 

 signs of vitality. It was tlien taken back to the greenhouse, and 

 in due time such union of the stem occurred as ultimately to 

 leave only a scar as e^adence of the fracture, the plant meanwhile 

 thriving and showing vigorous growth. 



Mr. A. W. Waters showed a series of enlarged photographs 

 of Bryozoa, taken to elucidate their structuial peculiarities. 

 Mr. Waters also showed a photograph of an Agave americana, 

 grown by T. Eowley Hill, Esq., at Worcester. 



Mr. E. V. Sherriug exhibited some of the fronds of Asplenium 

 de?ificu]afum, which Eern he had obtained in Jamaica, and since 

 successfully grown near Bristol. 



Mr. Christy called attention to samples of Coffee-Beans in a 

 diseased condition. 



Tlie following papers were read : — 



1. "Ou the Flora of Munipore and Kohima." By Charles 

 Baron Clarke, F.L.S. 



2. " On some Grregarious Pyralichne from the Punjaub." By 

 Lord Walsingham, M.A., F.L.S. 



3. " On a further Collection of Ferns fi'om West Borneo made 

 by Dr. Hose, Bishop of Singapore and Sarawak." By J. Gr. 

 Baker, F.E.S., F.L.S. 



4. " Fungi Japonici nounulli." By Dr. C. Spegazzini and 

 Tokutaro Ito, F.L.S. 



5. " Contributions to South-African Botany. — Part III.'' 

 By Harry Bolus, F.L.S. 



6. "AEevisionof the Grenera Microstt/Us smd Malaoeis.'' By 

 H. N. Eidley, M.A., F.L.S. 



7. " Eej)ort on the Annelids of the Mergui Expedition." By 

 Frank E. Beddard, M.A. (Communicated by Dr. John Ander- 

 son, F.L.S.) 



8. " Ou Nuclei in Oscillaria and Tolypothrix.^' By Dukinfield 

 H. Scott, F.L.S. 



0. " Index Flora) Sinensis." — Part III. By Francis Black- 

 well Forbes, F.L.S., and AVilliam Botting Hemsley, A.L.S. 



10. " On a Species of Balanophora new to the Japanese Flora." 

 By Tokutaro Ito, F.L.S. 



11. " Ou the Actinia; of the Mergui Expedition." By Prof. 

 Haddon. (Communicated by Dr. John Anderson, F.L.S.) 



