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Red Sandstone at Stanford and Ambersley, in Worcestersliire." 

 (Brit. Assoc. Eeport, 1837.) 



7. Report of the Committee for making Experiments on the 

 Growth of Plants under Glass. (8vo, London, 1831.) 



8. * On the Footsteps of Extinct Animals observed in a Quarry 

 in Rathbone Street, Liverpool.' (Ibid., 1840.) 



9. " Observations on Certain Species of Cycadece.''^ (Phytologist, 

 vol. iii. 1850.) 



10. " Notice of Zam'm gic/as." (Proe, Yorkshire Phil. Soc. 1855.) 



11. " On the Inflorescence of Ci/cas revoluta and Macrozamia 

 spiralis" (Proc. Linn. Soc. vol. ii.) 



Mr. Yates died at Lauderdale House, Highgate, on the 7th of 

 May 1871, at the age of 82. He was elected a Fellow of this 

 Society on the 17th of December 1822. 



June 1st, 1871. 



George Bentham, Esq., President, in the Chair. 



The President nominated J. J. Bennett, Esq., George Busk, Esq., 

 J. D. Hooker, M.D., and W. W. Saunders, Esq., Vice-Presidents for 

 the ensuing year. 



Mr. J. C. Melvill, Jun., F.L.S., exhibited specimens of Siler tri- 

 lobum. Scop. (S. aqidlegifolium, Gsertn.), found on the 25th ult., in a 

 field above the chalk-pit at Cherry Hinton, Cambridgeshire, where it 

 had been previously gathered by Mr. Melvill in June 1867. 



The following papers were read : — 



1. " Notes on some plants from Northern China," by Henry F. 

 Hance, Ph.D. &c. Communicated by J. D. Hooker, M.D., C.B,, 

 V.P.L.S. &c. 



2. " On the Hippocrateacese of South America," by John Miers, 

 Esq., F.R. & L.SS. 



June 15, 1871. 



George Bentham, Esq., President, in the Chair. 



Mr. Hewlett exhibited two living specimens of the Tarantula 

 Spider, which he had received from Madeira ; the female had laid a 

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