PROCEEDINGS OF THE 



2. i\Ir. CiRiL CnosshAND, F.L.S. — A Physical Description of 



Ivhor JUoiif^onab, lied Sea. 



3. Mr. KowLAND E. Tuuxeu. — On the Fossoriul llymenoptera 



of the Indian Ocean. (Cotnuiunicated by Prof. J. Stanley 

 Gardineh, F.R.S., F.L.S., with the four following.) 



4. Prof. J. J. KiEFiEii. — The Cecidomyiida; of the Seychelles. 



5. The C.'iiirouomidic of the Seychelles. 



6. Dr. K. Ki:kti';sz. — The Stratioinyiidie of the Seychelles. 



7. Mr. E. Metuick, F.K.S.— The Tortricina and Tineina of the 



Seychelles and Aldabra. 



February 2nd, 1911. 

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



The Minutes of the General Meeting of the 19th January, 

 1911, were read and confirmed. 



The General Secretary showed a series of lantern-slides, 

 (1) explaining the genesis of the portrait of Carl von Linne, 

 painted by Alexander Rosliu, and the various copies, including 

 the original three-quarter-length portrait now at Versailles, 

 thougli in a somewhat poor condition ; and (2) showing that the 

 I/aplaiid drum in the Hoffman portrait and on the Jap of the 

 foreground ligure in the engraved title-page of the 'Flora lap- 

 ponica' is a magic drum, and not a botanic press. (See abstract 

 on pp. 56-61.) 



Dr, Young asked a question about the reversal of the Bervic 

 print, to which Dr. Daydon Jackson replied. 



Dr. Otto Staff, F.E.S., Sec.L.S., showed specimens and a 

 lantern-slide of Dujitaria didactyla, Willd., from Sydney, wiiere it 

 has recently been used with fair success in making law 11s. 



Mr. A. W. Sutton, F.L.S. , stated: — "It is almost a universal 

 custom throughout the Continent — that is, in France, Germany, 

 Switzerland, and Italy — to make their garden lawns fresh every 

 year by sowing Perennial Kye Grass (Lolium jpere)ine) exclusively, 

 or almost exclusively, as, owing to the heat and drought often 

 experienced, it is impossible to use those liner grasses in niixture 

 w hich are the essential feature of English lawns. Consequently 

 tlie Dujitaria didacti/la exhibited may prove of greater value on 

 the Continent than in England." 



Ec7. T. E. E. Stebbing asked what gave the green colour in the 

 spring in the Nile Valley, when Mr. Sutton replied that it was 

 wholly due fo young corn, along the river-side and canals. 



