12 PROCEEDINGS OE THE 



April 15th, 1897. 



Dr. A. GrNTHEE, F.E.S., President, in the Chair. 



The Minutes of the last Meeting were read and confirmed. 



Mr. William Betting Hemsley was admitted, and Mr. Daniel 

 Angel Jones was elected a Fellow. 



Mr. H. Fisher, the naturalist attached to the Jackson- 

 Harmsworth Polar Expedition, gave some preliminary obser- 

 vations on the plants collected by him during his two years' 

 residence on Franz Josef Land. 



The following papers were read : — 



1. " On the Evolution of Oxygen from Coloured Bacteria." 

 By Dr. A. J. Ewart. (Communicated by Dr. J. E. Grreen, F.E.S., 

 F.L.S.) 



2. " On some new Crustacea from the Irish Seas." By Alfred 

 O. Walker, F.L.S. 



May 6th, 1897. 



Dr. A. GrUNTHEE, F.E.S., President, in the Chair. 



The Minutes of the last Meeting were read and confirmed. 



Prof. Ludwig Eadlkofer, of Munich, was elected a Foreign 

 Member. 



In view of the approaching Anniversary Meeting, Mr. Osbert 

 Salvin and Prof. Farmer were, by show of hands, elected 

 Auditors on behalf of the Council, and Messrs. E. M. Holmes 

 and H. Druce on behalf of the Fellows. 



Prof. Stewart, F.E.S., exhibited and made remarks on some 

 anatomical preparations showing the different modes of attach- 

 ment of the Ligamentum nuclice in herbivorous and carnivorous 

 Mammals, as exemplified in the Sheep and Dog, and of the 

 Ligamenta suhflava. The analogous ligaments of Birds were 

 dealt with, and special attention was drawn to a preparation of 

 the vertebral column of the Python, showing vertebra-costal 

 fihro-cartilaginous plates of which he could find no description 

 and which he believed to be peculiar to the Ophidia. 



The following papers were read : — 



1. " On Desmids from Singapore." By Messrs. W. and Gr. 

 S. West. 



2. "The Problem of Utility." By Captain F. W. Button, 

 F.E.S. (Communicated by Prof. A. Newton, F.E.S., F.L.S.) 



3. " On New Species of Molluscafrom the Island of Madeira." 

 By the Eev. E. Boog Watson, F.L.S. 



