LnrtTEAN SOCIETY OE LONDON. 



December 1st, 1887. 



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



The Minutes of tlie last Meeting were read and confirmed. 



Kenric Harold Bennett, Esq., Lord Egerton of Tatton, William 

 Francis, Esq., William Singer M'^Millan, Esq., Alfred James 

 North, Esq., John Douglas Ogilby, Esq., Alfred Samuel Castle- 

 Stuart Stuart, Esq., George Swainson, Esq., Isaac Cooke Thomp- 

 son, Esq., Charles Topp, Esq., and the Rev. Erancis William 

 Galpin, were elected Eellows. 



There was exhibited for Mr. Oscar Eraser, E.L.S., of the Indian 

 Museum, Calcutta, a specimen picked up on the Madras coast, 

 of what was supposed to be a weather-worn seed of a Palm, 

 though its exact nature could not be determined by the Indian 

 authorities. The object in question having been examined by 

 Dr. John Anderson, late of Calcutta, and Mr. A. Dendy of the 

 British Museum, they inclined to regard it as possibly the 

 consolidated roe of a fish, while Prof. Charles Stewart surmised 

 the substance to be vegetable in structure. Positive decision 

 was left pending further microscopic and cbemical investigation. 



The following papers were read : — 



1. " Observations on Ants, Bees, and Wasps. — Part XI." By 

 Sir John Lubbock, Bart., E.E.S., E.L.S. 



2. " On a new Species of Fanicum, with remarks on the Ter- 

 minology of the Graminese." By Charles Baron Clarke, E.E.S., 

 E.L.S. 



December 15tb, 1887. . 



William Caeetjthees, E.E.S., President, in the Chair. 



The Minutes of the last Meeting were read and confirmed. 



John William Groves, Esq., William Edward Mathews, Esq., 

 and the Eev. Percy Watkin Myles, were elected Eellows. 



The following letter was read from Mr. John Quelch, Curator 

 of the British Guiana Museum at Demerara, and the accompany- 

 ing photograph shown therewith : — 



British Guiana Museum, 

 Demerara, Aug. 4th, 1887. 



Deae Sie, 



I enclose a photograph of a specimen showing fasciation in 

 the Pineapple. The specimen was sent to the Museum recently 

 by a Mr. Duggin of New Amsterdam, and was obtained from 

 the upper part of the Berbice Kiver. The basal portion below 



