LTNNEAK SOCIETY OF LONDON. 5 



Mr. J. E. Hartino; exhibited a living specimen of the Snow- 

 Bunting, Emheriza nivalis, which had been captured with several 

 others off Cape Race on board the s.s. ' Ottoman ' in October 

 last, during the voyage from Boston to Liverpool, as mentioned 

 at a former Meeting (November 7th). 



The following papers were read : — 



1. " A Eevision of the Grenus Vanilla." Bv Robert Allen 

 Rolfe, A.L.S. 



2. " Report on the Ceplialopoda of the Calcutta Museum." 

 By E. S. Goodrich, F.L.S. 



January 16th, 1896. 



Mr. C. B. Clakke, F.R.S., President, in the Chair. 



Tlie Minutes of the last Meeting were read and conBrmed. 



Messrs. Oliver Yernon Aplin and William Cole were elected 

 Pellows of the Sjciety. 



On behalf of Mr. G-. H. Adcock, E.L.S., of Geelong, Victoria, 

 Mr. A. B. Rendle, F.L.S. , exhibited and made remarks upon 

 some photographs of Ralcea grammatophylla, F. MuelL, a little- 

 knowu species of the Proteacecs, of local distribution in South 

 Australia. 



Mr. G. F. Scott Elliot exhibited specimens of Bark Cloth from 

 Uganda and the shores of Lake Tanganyika, and gave an account 

 of the mode of its preparation from the bark-cloth Fig, also of 

 the fleshy Euphorbias and the Acacias of British East Africa, illus- 

 trating bis remarks with lantern-slides from photographs taken 

 by himself. Mr. Elliot remarked that the native cloth manu- 

 factured on the shores of the Tanganyika was made on the same 

 sort of rough loom which he had seen employed near Sierra Leone, 

 and that as the Tanganyika is ethnologically and botanically part 

 of the West Coast, it was interesting to find that the methods 

 employed in countries so far apart were so similar in detail. A 

 discussion followed, in which Messrs. Rendle, Holmes, T. Christy, 

 and W. Carruthers took part. 



On behalf of Mr. W. R. Ogilvie Grant, Mr. Hartiug exhi- 

 bited some land-shells and eggs and skins of two rare Petrels from 

 the Salvage Islands, lying between the Canaries and INladeira. 

 These islands were stated to be of volcanic origin, faced with 

 steep rocks from 100 feet to 300 feet in height, and covered with 

 loose sandy soil, the vegetation consisting chiefly of the wild 

 Tomato {Lycopersicum escid entum), the Ice-plant {Mesembryan- 

 themum crystalliiiiim), Asparagus scoparius, and Cistanche lutea. 

 Amongst the shells collected were Helix ustulata, peculiar to the 

 Salvage Islands, K. pisana, R. Macandrewi, H. poly^norphuy 



