11 PROCEEDINGS OF THE 



November 19tli, 1874. 



Prof. ALLMATf, M.D., LL.D., F.E.S., President, in the Chair. 



E, Brough Smyth, Esq., was elected a FeUow. 



Mr. Daniel Hanbury, Treas. L.S., exhibited specimens of the 

 rose from which Attar of Eose is distilled on the southern slopes 

 of the Balkan. They were obtained by Mr. Vice-Consul Dupuis, 

 of Adrianople, and were referred by Mr. J. Gr. Baker to Uosa 

 gallica, Linn., var. damascena, Miller, 



The following papers were read : — 



1. " On the Structure and Systematic Position of Stephanoscy- 

 pJius mirabilis, the type of a new order of Hydrozoa, Thecome- 

 dusce." By Dr. AUman, P.E.S., Pres. L.S. 



2. " Monographic Sketch of the Durione*." By M. T. Mas- 

 ters, M.D., P.E.S. & L.S. 



December 3rd, 1874. 

 Prof Allman, M.D., LL.D., P.E.S., President, in the Chair. 



Sir Edmund Buckley, Bart., M.P., James Brogden, Esq., James 

 Cowherd, Esq., Patrick Duffy, Esq., C. C. Dupre, Esq., A. M. 

 Eoss, M.D., and S. "W. Silver, Esq., were elected Eellows. 



The President read a letter from the Eev. John Hellins, Exe- 

 cutor of the late H. Dorville, Esq., announcing the bequest, by 

 Mr. Dorville, of a miniature portrait of the late Col. Montagu, 

 E.L.S., together with interleaved and annotated copies of his ' Or- 

 nithological Dictionary ' and ' Testacea Britannica,' the coloured 

 drawings from which the original illustrations of these works 

 were made, and several volumes of his unpublished manuscripts. 



Ordered that the Special Thanks of the Society be presented to 

 the Executor and Eesiduary Legatee for this valuable bequest. 



