LIKNEAN SOCIETY OF LONDOU". 3 



Mr. Thomas Christy exhibited some germinating seeds of 

 Pepper, showing the testa being carried up by the cotyledons. 



The following papers were read : — 



1. "A Revision of the British Copepoda belonging to the 

 Grenera Bradya and Ectinosoma." By Thomas Scott, P.L.S., 

 and Andrew Scott. 



2. "Eecent Observations on the Plant yielding Bhang, Can- 

 nabis sativa, Linn." By Dr. David Prain, F.L.S. 



December 6th, 1894. 



Mr. CflAELEs Baeon Claeke, P.E.S., President, in the Chair. 



The Minutes of the last Meeting were read and confirmed. 



Mr. Walter Tothill was elected a Pellow. 



Mr. E. M. Holmes exhibited and made some remarks upon a 

 small collection of Japanese Marine Algae, some of which were of 

 considerable rarity in European collections. 



Prof. D. Campbell brought forward some illustrations of the 

 relations of vascular Cryptogams as deduced from their deve- 

 lopment. His remarks were followed by a discussion in which 

 Prof Bower, Dr. D. H. Scott, Mr. Carruthers, and Prof. Marshall 

 Ward took part. 



The following paper was read : — 



" A New Eevisiou of the Dipterocarpeae." By Sir Dietrich 

 Brandis, P.E.S., P.L.S. 



December 20th, 1894. 



Mr. Chaeles Baeon Claeke, E.E.S., President, in the Chair. 



The Minutes of the last Meeting were read and confirmed. 



Mr. Peter Ewing was elected a Fellow. 



Mr. W. Betting Hemsley exhibited a series of specimens and 

 figures illustrating the parasitism of Loranthus aphyllus, Miers, 

 and other plants, from the Herbarium, Kew. 



Mr. J. E. Harting exhibited a specimen of a small Siberian 

 Warbler, Phylloscopus superciliosus, which had been obtained 

 near Beverley, Yorkshire, in October last, and made some 

 remarks upon its haunts, habits, and migration, and upon the 

 previous instances which had been noted of its accidental occur- 

 rence in the British Islands. 



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