6 PROCEEDINGS OF THE 



Rumina decollata, LUtorina striata, Oeritliium rupestre, and JVassa 

 conspersa. Helix paupercula was said to furnish the cliief food 

 of the Tarantula spider {Lycosa maderiana), and entire shells of 

 Helix pisana had been found in the stomach of a Kestrel Hawk 

 shot on one of the islands. The Petrels exhibited with their 

 eggs were Pelagodroma marina and Oceanodroma cryptoleucura, 

 which were found nesting in hnrrows after the manner of the 

 Shearwater, Puffinus Kulili, of which great numbers were also 

 breeding there. Mr. Howard Saunders offered some critical 

 remarks on these birds, referring chiefly to what was known of 

 their geographical distribution. 



Mr. Greorge Murray exliibited full-grown complete specimens 

 of some giant Lamiuarians from the Pacific, Nereocystis, Egregia, 

 and Macrocystis, and some very fine specimens of Postelsia, 

 collected by Mr. W. E. Shaw on the coast of California. He 

 made some remarks on the distribution of Calif oruian Laminariece, 

 and illustrated some points in the structure of their reproductive 

 organs. 



The following paper was read : — 



" On the Fistulose Polymorphince and the Bamulince." By 

 Prof. T. Eupert Jones, F.E.S., and Frederick Chapman, F.E.M.S. 

 (Communicated by Prof. Gr. B. Howes, Sec. L.S.) 



February 6th, 1896. 



Mr. C. B. Clarke, F.E.S., President, in the Chair. 



Tlie Minutes of the last Meeting were read and confirmed. 



The Eev. E. A. Woodruffe-Peacock and Mr. William Cole were 

 admitted, and Messrs. J. Backhouse, Grilbert Christy, and Ivor 

 Eichards were elected Fellows of the Society. 



The vacancies on the list of Foreign Members, caused by the 

 deaths of Prof. H. E. Baillon, Prof. James D. Dana, and Prof. 

 Sven Loveu, having been announced by the President, the fol- 

 lowing nominations were made on the recommendation of the 

 Council, and the Certificates ordered to be suspended : — 



Dr. Douglas Houghton Campbell, Professor of Botany in the 

 Leland Stanford Junior TJniverc<ity, California. Author of 'The 

 Structure and Development of Mosses and Ferns,' and other 

 memoirs. 



Prof. Alphonse Milne-Edwards, Director of the Museum 

 d'Histoire naturelle, Paris. Author of ' Eecherches auatomiques 

 et paleontologiques pour seiwir h. I'histoire des Oiseaux fossiles 

 de la France,' and various other zoological monographs; and 

 Editor of the 'Annales des Sciences Naturelles (Zoologie).' 



Prof. Charles Otis Whitman, Senior Professor of Biology, 



