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the Phanerogamia ; while his ohservations furnish facts which greatly 

 support the probability of an impregnation by the spermatozoids ; 

 the difficulties he suggests being of little weight in comparison with 

 those of accounting for the existence of all the peculiar structures 

 by any other hypothesis. The opinions of all the rest are in favour 

 of the impregnation (Thuret does not treat of the archegonia), and 

 the differences between them, except in the case of Suminski, are 

 unimportant in a physiological point of view, merely presenting 

 questions of anatomical and morphological interest. And since 

 Suminski's description of the mode of origin of the embryo would be 

 altogether at variance with what exists, not only in other plants, but 

 also in animals, and is opposed to the observations of all the rest 

 of us (except the doubtful support given by Von Mercklin), I cannot 

 but repeat my belief that he was led from the facts by his imagi- 

 nation being preoccupied by Schleiden's doctrine of the impregna- 

 tion of the Phanerogamia." 



December 7. 



R. Brown, Esq., President, in the Chair. 



' The By-Law proposed by the Council on the 2nd of November to 

 be added at the end of Chapter X. as follows : — 



" Sect. X. The Society shall not, and may not, make any Divi- 

 dend, Gift, Division, or Bonus in Money, unto or between any of its 

 Members," 



having been hung up in the common meeting-room of the Society, 

 and read by the President, or Vice-President in the Chair, at the 

 two last successive General Meetings of the Society, was put to the 

 ballot, and confirmed by the Fellows at large in the terms of the 

 Charter. 



Read, " The Flora of South Australia displayed in its fundamental 

 features and comparatively." By Dr. Ferdinand Miiller of Adelaide, 

 in a Letter to R. Kippist, Esq., Libr. L.S., translated and communi- 

 cated by Mr. Kippist. 



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