ltjststean society of LOKDoy. xlv 



June 2, 1864. 



G-eorge Bentliam, Esq., President, iu the Chair. 



T]\e President nominated J. J. Bennett, Esq., J. D. Hooker, 

 M.D., John Lubbock, Esq., and W. W. Saunders, Esq., Vice- 

 Presidents for the ensuing year. 



Dr. "Welwitseh, A.L.S., exhibited a series oi Aroidece from An- 

 gola, principally to show the successive metamorphoses wliieli occur 

 in \]\e leaves of Amorpliophallns and some allied genera. 



The following Papers were read, viz. : — 



1. "On the Conanthereae \'' by John Miers, Esq., E.E.S. and 

 L.S. (See ' Transactions,' vol. xxiv. Part 3.) 



2. " On the Individual Sterility and Cross Impregnation of 

 certain species of Onciclium ;" by Mr. JohiT Scott. Communi- 

 cated by Charles Darwin, Esq., F.ll. & L.S. (See ' Botanical 

 Proceedings,' vol. viii.) 



3. " Notes on British Fungi ;" by Frederick Carrey, Esq., 

 F.E. & L.S. (See ' Transactions,' vol. xxiv. Part 3.) 



4. " On Sloetia, a new genus of Moracece, from Sumatra and 

 Singapore;" by Mr. Salpig Kurz, Curator of the Herbarium, 

 Botanic Grarden, Calcutta. Communicated by T. Anderson, M.D., 

 F.L.S., with a Note by Di*. Anderson. (See 'Botanical Proceed- 

 ings,' vol. viii.) 



5. " Descriptions of new species of Hymenopterous Insects 

 collected by Mr. A. R. Wallace in the islands of Sumatra, Sula, 

 Grilolo, Salwatty, and New Gruinea ;" by F. Smith, Esq., Assistant, 

 Zoological Department, British Museum. Communicated by 

 W. W. Saunders, Esq., V.P.L.S. (See 'Zoological Proceediugs,' 

 vol. viii.) 



6. " On the Structure and Homologies of the Eenal Oi^gan in 

 the Nudibranchiate Mollusca ;" by Albany Hancock, Esq., F.L.S. 

 (See ' Transactions,' vol. xxiv. Part 3.) 



7. '■ Descriptions of new tubiculous Annelides in the Collection 



