2 rnOCEEDINGS OF TUB 



The deaths of Dr. Melchior Treuh, Foreign Mnniher, of 

 Samuel Alexander Stewart and Edward Geirard, Associates, were 

 announced. 



The follow ing papers were read and discussed : — 



1. Prof. AY. A. ITerdman, F.R.S.. F.L.S.— A Comparison of 



the Summer Plankton on the "West Coast of Scotland with 

 that in the Irish Sea. 



2. Mr. J. C. F. Fryer. — The Structure and Formation of Aklahra 



and neighhouring Islands, with notes on their Flora and 

 Fauna. (Communicated by Prof. J. Stanley Gabdinee, 

 F.P.S., F.L.S.) 



3. ]Mr. 11. B. BioET.ow. — On the Siphonophora of the 'Peseareh ' 



Biscaj^an Plankton. (Communicated by Dr. G. Herbert 

 Fowler, F.L.S.) 



November 17th, 1910. 

 Dr. D. II. Scott, M.A., F.E.S., President, in the Chair. 



The Minutes of the General Meeting of the 3rd November, 

 1910, were read and confirmed. 



Dr. Edward Hindle and Mr. Cuthbert St. John Nevill were 

 elected Fellows. 



The Eev. Manoah Holland and Mr. Hugh Godfrey Mundy were 

 proposed as Fellows, and Mr. Arthur Bennett and Mr. AYilliam 

 Cole were proposed as Associates. 



Mr. W. C. "WoRSDELL, F.L.S. , exhibited specimens of Maize 

 showing androgynous inflorescences, from Pretoria, South Africa ; 

 Dr. Stapf spoke on the probable derivation of Zea Mays from a 

 species of Eucldcena. Mr. Worsdell also showed the model of a 

 native tortoise carved from some unknown wood, which had been 

 riddled by a wood-borin<2: beetle in Cape Town, identified as 

 Botryclioplites cornutus, Oliv. 



Prof. J. W. H Trail, F.E.S., F.L.S., exhibited specimens and 

 a lantern -slide of a remarkable form of liuhvs Idcrns, distributed 

 over a considerable district in Aberdeenshire, in which the normal 

 number of leaflets was increased by an extra basal pair, approach- 

 ing the leaf of the Suberecti group of fruticose Ii^^hi. 



A discussion followed in which Prof. Henslow, Mr. Henry 

 Groves, and the President took part. 



The General Secretary showed a monstrous pear, similar to those 

 figured by Dr. Masters in his ' Vegetable Teratology,' which had 

 been picked up under a pear-tree in a Ilolloway garden by Mr. A. 

 H. Williams. Prof. Henslow and Mr. AVorsdell remarked upon 

 the frequency of this monstrosity ami its probable origin. 



