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d. The same remarkable arrangement of the muscular fibres 

 — the Hectocotylce in the muscular envelope of the body, 

 the Cephalopoda in their arms. 



3. Among 280 Argonauts examined not a single male was found. 



4. Nevertheless the males must be very numerous, inasmuch as 



nearly all the Argonauts carry impregnated ova. 



5. The Hectocotylee live in the neighbourhood of the female sexual 



organs of their Cephalopods, and are all males. 



6. The eggs of the Argonaut contain, according to Madame Power 



and Maravigna, embryos perfectly similar to the Hect. Argo- 

 naut ce. 

 If this last statement be correct, adds Dr. KoUiker, there can be 

 no doubt that the Hect. Argonauts is the male of the Argonaut. 



Read also a continuation of Dr. J. D. Hooker's " Enumeration of 

 the Plants of the Galapagos Islands." 



Anniversary Meeting. 

 May 24. 



The Lord Bishop of Norwich, President, in the Chair. 



The President opened the business of the Meeting, and the list of 

 the Members whom the Society had lost during the past year having 

 been first read, the Secretary proceeded to read the following notices 

 of some among them. 



The deaths among the Fellows amounted to thirteen. The first 

 name is that of 



Francis Baily, Esq., who was the son of a banker at Newbury in 

 the county of Berks, and was born at that place on the 28th of April 

 1774. At the age of fourteen he was sent to London, where he re- 

 mained in a mercantile house till his twenty-second year, and then 

 travelled for a year or two in the United States. About the year 1801 

 he entered into business as a stock-broker ; and soon afterwards 

 distinguished himself as a mathematician and accountant by a series 

 of highly useful and important works on the Purchase and Renewal 

 of Leases and the Doctrine of Interest, Annuities and Insurances. 



In the year 1811 he commenced his astronomical career by the 



