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experience as to the behaviour of sports of this kind, in the course 

 of time we might hope to possess data sufficient to enable us to 

 form some reasonable idea as to the i'requeucy, and above all» 

 the permanency of such mutations in wild types of plants. 



December 7th, 1911. 

 Dr. D. H. ScoxT, M.A., F.R.S., President, in the Chair. 



The Minutes of the General Meeting of the IGth November, 

 1911, were read and confirmed. 



Mr, Frank Evans, Mr. George William Howes, and Dr. Ealph 

 Vincent were proposed as Fellows. 



Mr. James Wales Audas, Mr. Claude Keith Bancroft, B.A., 

 Miss Kuth Mary Cardew, AVilliam John Dakiii, D.Sc, Mr. John 

 Hughes, John Harvey Johnston, M.A., D.Sc, Eobert Laurie, 

 M.B., Ch.B. (Glasg.), B.Sc. (Edin.), William McEae, B.Sc, Sir 

 Frederick William Moore, M.A., M.E.I.A., Dr. Annie Porter, 

 B.Sc. (Lond.), Albert Malins Smith, M.A. (Cantab.), Miss Edith 

 Layard Stephens, B.A. (Cape), Miss Elsie Maud Wakefield, and 

 Alfred James Wilmott, B.A. (Cantab.), were elected Fellows. 



Mr. H. N. Dixon read his paper entitled " On some Mosses of 

 New Zealand." 



Dr. Geokge Hendeeson then showed a series of more than 

 70 slides, taken during an official mission through Kashmir, Little 

 Tibet, and Turkestan in 1870. The original photographs had 

 been lost sight of, but having recently been discovered in the 

 keeping of a friend, lantern-slides had been made from them, and 

 were now shown, with explanatioiif^ by the author. He traced 

 the progress of the expedition from Lahore to Yarkand, where the 

 series ended. 



Dr. Stapf and the President commented on the interest of the 

 exhibition, and the botanical results obtained 40 years ago. 



Dr. Hendersox also showed three variations in the foliage of 

 Ahws (jlvtinosa from the banks of the Elver Darenth, in full view 

 of his house, and explained that these differences corresponded 

 with varying dates of leafing, leaf-fall, and fruiting. 



The President spoke on the changes induced by trees and 

 shrubs being cut back, the luxuriance of the new growth making 

 it almost unrecognizable, as in a case observed at Oakley, when it 

 was found that Ithnmnus cathartica had assumed a new form 

 owing to severe coppicing. Mr. J. C. Shenstone also spoke. 



