112 PROCEEDINGS OE THE 



June 21st, 1888. 



Frank Ckisp, Esq., Treasurer and Vice-President, in the Chair, 

 afterwards Dr. Maxwell T. Masters, F.E.S., Vice-President. 



The Minutes of the last Meeting were read and confirmed. 



Prof. D'Arcy AVilliam Thompson, Lorenzo Gordin Yates, Esq., 

 Edward Francis Johns, Esq., Charles Nathan ier Peal, Esq., and 

 Lieut. -Col. Leonard Howard Irby were elected Fellows. 



Mr. F. "Wall Oliver exhibited the aquatic and terrestrial forms 

 o^TrapeUa sinensis, of which he gave a detailed account illustrated 

 by diagrams. 



Dr. E. C. A Prior exhibited a branch of the so-called " Cornish 

 Elm," and described its peculiar mode of growth, which suggested 

 its recognition as a distinct species. By botanists present it was 

 regarded merely as a well-marked variety of the common Elm. 



On behalf of Mr. E. Newstead, of the Grosvenor Museum, 

 Chester, photographs and drawings of the Little Grebe, Podiceps 

 minor, were exhibited, to illustrate a peculiarity observed in the 

 mechanism of the leg-bones. 



Mr. A. W. Bennett exhibited under the microscope, and made 

 remaiks upon, filaments of Sphceroplea annuUna Irom a tank at 

 Kew, containing fertilized oospores. 



Mr. Thomas Christy exhibited specimens of natural and manu- 

 factured Kola nuts, and explained how the latter might always 

 be detected. 



The following papers were read : — 



1 . " On the Comatulse of the Mergui Archipelago." By Dr. 

 P. H. Carpenter, F.L.S. 



2. " On the Echinoidea of the Mergui Archipelago." By P. 

 Martin Duncan, F.E.S., and AV. Percy Sladeu, Sec. L.S. 



3. "On the Asteroidea of the Mergui Archipelago." By "NV. 

 Percy Sladen, Sec. L.S. 



4. " Contributions to South-African Botany : Orchideae. — Part 

 IIL" By Harry Bolus, F.L.S. 



5. " A Morphologic and Systematic Eevision of the Apo- 

 Btasia;." By Eobert Allen Eolie, A. L.S. 



