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last Meeting, wlieu a Fellow of the Society rose and proposed to 

 submit a question, justifying his so doing by reference to Chap. 

 IX. of the Bye- Laws. The President ruled that this would be 

 irregular, as the then present Meeting could only proceed with 

 its ordinary business, which was (as defined by Sect. VI. of 

 Chap. XIII. of the Bye-Laws) " to read and hear letters, reports, 

 and other papers on subjects of Natural History." Some further 

 discussion then arose, and the President, not considering that he 

 had the support of the Meeting, left the Chair. 



February 19th, 1874. 



J. GrWTN Jefeeeys, Esq., F.E.S., in the Chair. 



H. J. Elwes, Esq., Alex. "Wm. Maxwell Clark-Kennedy, Esq., 

 Robert "Warner, Esq., Thomas Eogers, Esq., Alexander Peckover, 

 Esq., and H. C. Lang, Esq., were elected Fellows, 



The Chairman announced, that a Special General Meeting would 

 be held on Thursday the 5th of March at 8 p.m., " to consider 

 alterations in the Bye-Laws of the Society." 



The following papers were then read : — 



1. " Systematic List of the Spiders at present known to inhabit 

 Great Britain and Ireland." By the Eev. O. P. Cambridge. 

 Presented by H. T. Staintou, Esq., Sec.L.S. 



During the last five years a constant communication and inter- 

 change of typical examples of spiders has been going on between 

 Dr. T. ThoreU, of Upsala, Dr. Koch, of Nurnberg, M. Eugene 

 Simon, of Paris, the writer, and others, with a view to a determi- 

 nation of the synonymic identity of the species recorded as in- 

 digenous to Europe, but principally to Sweden, France, Germany, 

 and England. The results of this investigation have been pub- 

 lished by Dr. Thorell in a most laborious and exhaustive work 

 lately completed, ' On the Synonyms of European Spiders.' The 

 efiect of this work is to give priority to names of many British 

 spiders described by Mr. Blackwall and the writer other than the 

 names they bear in the works of those authors. The time there- 



