LINNEAN SOCIETY OP LONDON. 75 



June 3rd, 1897. 

 Dr. A. GtJNTHEK, r.E.S., President, in the Chair. 



The Minutes of the last Meeting were read and confirmed. 



The Hon. Walter Eothschild and Mr. J. B. Sowerby were 

 admitted, and the following were elected Pellows of the Society: — 

 Messrs. Edward Russell Budden, "Walter Smithsou Rowntree, 

 Thomas Steel, aud Greorge Creswell Turner. 



The President appointed the following Vice-Presidents for the 

 ensuing year : — Messrs. W. Carruthers, F. Crisp, St. G. Mivart, 

 and D. H. Scott. 



Prof. Gr. B. Howes exhibited specimens of the remarkable 

 Crustacean Anaspides Tasmanice, from the Hartz Lake, Huon 

 district, Tasmania, which he had received from Mr. Gr. M. 

 Thomson, its discoverer (see Traus. Linn. Soc, Zool. II. vol. vi. 

 p. 287), together with a letter stating that the animal is now 

 known from three localities. He directed attention to a recent 

 monograph by Caiman (Trans. E. Soc. Ediub. vol. xxxviii. p. 787), 

 in which the conclusion was drawn that the " Pod-Shrimps " of 

 the genera Acanthotelson, Gampsonyx, aud f'alceocaris, in respect 

 to characters in which they are anomalous, agree with Anaspides, 

 and that the four genera are probably to be referred to an ancient 

 group of primitive Malacostraca. He remarked that he was 

 disposed to agree with Caiman's determiuation of the morpho- 

 logical value of the "first thoracic segment" of Thomson, and 

 that he could confirm his statement that the peduncle of the 

 flagellum of the antenna w^as but two-jointed. 



The Eev. T. E. Stebbing, E.E.S., threw doubts upon the 

 association claimed by Caiman for Acanthotelson, and remarked 

 that some Amphipods are known to agree with Anaspides in 

 the possession of double epipodial lamellae. The " ocellus " of 

 Caiman did not appear to him to occupy the position of an 

 ocellus, and he thought it might possibly be a luminous organ. 



The following papers were read : — 



1. " Observations on the Termites of Borneo, the Malay 

 Peninsula, and South Africa." By Greorge Darby Havilaud, 

 E.L.S. 



2. " On the Fistulose Polymorphinae aud the Genus Ramulina. 

 — Part II. Eamulina.'' By T. Rupert Jones, E.E.S., and 

 E. Chapman, A.L.S., E.R.M.S. 



.S. " On the Number of Sterigmata and Spores in Agaricus 

 campestrisy By E. Charles Horrell. (Communicated by Prof. J. 

 Bretland Earmer, E.L.S.) 



