LIXNEAN SOCIEIT OF LONDON. 5 



January 19th, 1911. 



Dr. D. H. Scott, M.A., F.R.S., President, in tlie Chair. 



The Minutes of the General Meeting of the 15th December, 

 1910, were read and confirmed. 



The Eev. Manoah Holland and Prof. Edward Alfred Miuchiu, 

 M.A., were admitted Fellows. 



The President alluded to the great loss biological science has 

 sustained in the death of Sir Francis Galton, F.E.S., on the 

 previous day, and stated that although not a Fellow of the Society, 

 he had often been at our Meetings, and was closely associated 

 with us as one of the recipients of the Darwin-Wallace Medal on 

 the 1st July, 1908. 



Miss Beatrice O. Corfe exhibited some trays of Lepidoptera 

 and other insects received from her brother, Mr. Charles Corfe, 

 living at Toronto. Amongst these local insects were some equally 

 common in Great Britain and Canada, as the Eed Admiral 

 ( Vcoiessa Atalanta) and a local variety of the Large Tortoiseshell 

 {V. polijcldoros). Others, as the Camberwell Beauty, Vanessa 

 Antiopa, common in Canada, are extremely rare in the United 

 Kingdom, and still others, as many of the various Swallowtails, 

 are absent from our fauna. Many of these insects were caught at 

 the street lamps. 



Prof. Dendt and Mr. G. E. Nicholls exhibited a series of 

 lantern-slides illustrating the structure and relations of the Sub- 

 commissural Organ and Eeissner's Fibre in various vertebrate 

 types ; the slides were described by Prof. Dendy, and Mr. Nicholls 

 gave a brief account of some experiments which he had made 

 which so far seemed to support the view that these organs consti- 

 tute an apparatus for automatically regulating the flexure of the 

 long axis of the body. 



Mr. F. IS". Williams, Dr. Eendle, Prof. Minchin, and Dr. Lilian 

 Veley discussed the points raised by the exhibition, and Prof. 

 Dendy replied. 



The Eev. E. A. Bullen exhibited specimens of Bytliinella 

 padiraci, Locard, and Nipliargus plateaxd, Chevreux, from an 

 underground river in Southern Central France. The Eev. T. E. 

 E. Stebbing added some observations to the foregoing. 



The following papers were read and discussed : — 



1. Mr. C. II. Wright, A.L.S.— The Flora of the Falkland 

 Islands. 



