PEOCEEDINQS OF THE 



March 1st, 1888. 



William Cabktjthers, F.R.S., President, in the Chair. 



The Minutes of the last Meeting were read and confirmed. 



George Thomas Baker, Esq., John Bretland Farmer, Esq., 

 Henry Powis Greenwood, Esq., Joseph Henry Maiden, Esq., 

 Alfred George Renshaw, Esq., Arthur Everett Shipley, Esq., and 

 John Augustus Voelcker, Esq., were elected Fellows. 



Mr. W. Ransom exhibited a collection of Ferns from the 

 Yosemite Valley, Califoruia, and a series of photographs of rare 

 North-American plants. 



Mr. James E. Harting exhibited a coloured drawing, life-size, 

 of a South-American Game-bird, the Rufous Tinainu, which has 

 been successfully introduced into this country at Brightlingsea, 

 Essex, by Mr. J. Bateman, and made some remarks on its affi- 

 nities and peculiarities of structure and habits. 



The following papers were read : — 



1. " On a new Genus of Cytiuaceae from Madagascar." By 

 Edmund G. Baker, F.L.S. 



2. " On the Fauna and Flora of the Kermadec Islands." By 

 J. F. Cheeseman." (Communicated by Sir J. D.Hooker, F.R.S., 

 F.L.S.) 



March 15tb, 1888. 



William Caeeuthees, F.R.S., President, in the Chair. 



The Minutes of the last Meeting were read and confirmed. 



John "William Taylor, Esq., Walter Gardiner, Esq., and David 

 Sharp, Esq., were elected Fellows : — 



Mr. James E. Harting exhibited the frontal portion of the 

 skull of a Red-deer Stag, vvhich although an adult animal had 

 never possessed horus, and made some remarks on the occasional 

 occurrence of this abnormality. The Stag in question was one 

 which had been shot some years ago by the late Emperor of 

 Germany in the royal forest of Georde, in Hanover. 



The following papers were read : — 



1. " A Monograph of the Thelephorece — Part I." By George 

 Massee. (Communicated by W. T. Thiselton Dyer, F. U.S., 

 F.L.S.) 



2. "Descriptions of three new Marine Algae." By E. A. 

 L. Batters, F.L.S. 



