12 PEOCEEDINOS OF THE 



The President then announced that the following Auditors to 

 examine the Treasurer's Accounts had been nominated by the 

 Council : — 



For the Fellows, Mr. Daniel Morris and Mr. Geo, E. M. 

 Murray; for the Council, Mr. Albert D. Michael and Prof. 

 John Anderson ; and by a show of hands these were unanimously 

 elected. 



Prof. Martin Duncan exhibited a specimen of Seterocentrotus 

 mammillatus, showing the apertures of three of the genital ducts 

 to be in the median interradial sutures ; the corresponding basal 

 plates being imperforate. 



Mr. George Murray exhibited some specimens of Spongocladia, 

 with explanatory coloured diagrams, and made some remarks on 

 the presence of Sponge-spicules in Algae, at present unaccounted 

 for. 



Mr. Daniel Morris exhibited and made some remarks upon the 

 Bird-catching Sedge, Uncinia jamaicensis. 



Mr. John 'R. Jackson, A.L.S., exhibited some table-mats from 

 Canada, made of the highly-scented grass Hierochloe horealis ; 

 and a sample of the so-called Pine- Wool, prepared from the 

 leaves of the American long-leaved or turpentiue-yieldiug Pine 

 (Finns australis), with a mat made from the wool, an industry 

 which has been recently started on a large scale at Wilmington, 

 North Carolina. 



Mr. J. E. Harting exhibited a living specimen of Natterer's 

 Bat, which had been captured the previous day at Christchurch, 

 Hants, together with a water-colour drawing from life of Dau- 

 benton's Bat, recently taken at the same place. 



The Ballot for a Member of the Council having been closed, 

 the President appointed Dr. John Meiklejohn, Mr. Frederick 

 J. Hanbury, and Mr. Stephen W. Silver, Scrutineers, and the 

 votes having been counted and reported to the President, he 

 declared Mr. John Jenner Weir to be duly elected. 



The following papers were read : — 



1. " Description of New Plants from Palestine." By the 

 Rev. George Post. (Communicated by W. T. Thiselton Dyer, 

 F.L.S.) 



2. " On the Flora of Water-Meadows." By Prof. William 

 Fream, F,L,S. 



