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Mr. B. Daydon Jackson, Sec. L.S., in directing attention to 

 an English translation by Mr. J. Lncas of that portion of Pehr 

 Kahn's ' Travels ' which relates to England, remarked that few 

 persons were aw^are that Kalra, a pupil of Linnaeus, had in 1748 

 spent six months in this country, and had diligently noted the 

 plants which he met with. Thus he had recorded no less than sixty 

 plants for Hertfordshire alone, deriving some of his information 

 fi om an examination of the contents of two haystacks in that 

 county, — in this way antici])ating by more than a century one of 

 the methods employed by Sir John Lawes and Sir J. H. Gilbert, 

 and by Prof. Fream. 



The following pnpers were read : — 



1. " On segmentally disposed Thoracic Grlands in the Larv£e of 

 Trichoptera." By Prof. Gustave Gilson. (Communicated by 

 Prof. G. B. Howes, Sec.L.S.) 



2. "On the Larval Gills of Odonata." By Prof. Gustave 

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



March 19th, 1896. 



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



The Minutes of the last Meeting were read and confirmed. 



Messrs. James Backhouse and Sj)encer H. Bickbam were 

 admitted, and Messrs. J. Hamilton Leigh and Edward Step were 

 elected Eellows of the Society. 



Mr. Thomas Christy drew attention to the fact that the 

 Anniversary Meeting of the Society would fall this year on 

 Whit-Monday. The President, in reply, remarked that the 

 matter had not escaped the attention of the OflBcers, and stated 

 what was proposed to be done. 



Mr. Clement Beid exhibited fruits of Naias marina from a 

 peaty deposit below mean-tide level in the new Docks at Barry, 

 S. Wales. In Britain it had only been found living at a single 

 locality in Norfolk, but in a fossil condition it had been obtained 

 in the pre-glacial forest-bed at Cromer. A discussion followed, 

 in which Messrs. A. B. Bendle, H. Groves, and A. W. Bennett 

 took part, ard it was suggested that the living plant might be 

 looked for in South Wales, where, being inconspicuous, it might 

 have been hitherto overlooked. 



Mr. Clement Eeid also exhibited some wood forwarded by 

 Mr. H.N. Eidley Irom the jungle near Singapore. It appeared 

 to have been eaten into a hone^ycombed mass of peculiar 

 character, and was found only in wet places, but always above 

 ground, the entire tree rotting. Neither Mr. Eidley nor Mr. 

 E/tid had seen anything like it in England ; and the latter, while 



