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The President anuounced that the Linnean Medal would be 

 awarded to Dr. E. C. L. Perkins, famous for his researches on the 

 Fauna of the Sandwicli Islands. 



Dr. D. H. Scott read a paper on '■'■ Botnjchioxylon paradoxum, a 

 Palaeozoic Pern with Secondary Wood." 



Eemarks were contributed by Dr. E. A. N. Arber, Prof. A. C. 

 Seward, and Dr. W. H. Lang, the author replying briefly. 



Dr. E. A. Newell Arber then summarized his paper, "On 

 Psygmophyllum majus, sp. nov., from the Lower Carboniferous 

 Rocks of Newfoundland, together with a Eevisiou of the Grenus, 

 and Eemarks on its Affinities." 



Prof. Seward and the President followed with additional ob- 

 servations. 



Mrs. He>'shaw then gave a lantern demonstration on "The 

 Alpine Flora of the Canadian Eocky Mountains," the slides giving 

 admirable representations of the more striking constituents of the 

 flora, with views of the magnificent mountain scenery in which 

 the plants are found. 



Dr. O. Stapf, Sir Frank Crisp, and the President joined in the 

 discussion which followed. 



May 2nd, 1912. 



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



The Minutes of the General Meeting of the 18th April, 1912, 

 were read and confirmed. 



Mr. Charles Hedley and Mr. Thomas Alfred Dymes were 

 admitted Fellows. 



Mr. William Henry Daun, .M.A. (Cantab.), the Eev. John 

 Stewart Miiller, M.A. (Cantab.), and Mr. Edwin Percy Phillips, 

 M.A. (Cape Univ.), were proposed as Fellows. 



The following persons were severally balloted for and elected: — 

 Dr. Eonald Hamlyn-Harris, F.Z.S., and Mr. Eobert Heath Lock, 

 M.A. (Cantab.), Fellows ; Dr. Hermann Christ-Socin, of Basel, 

 Foreign Member ; and Mr. William Hales, Associate. 



The President read the proposed alterations in the Bye-Laws in 

 Chap. II. Sections 2 and 3, with regard to Composition ; the new 

 provisions were explained by the President, and the method of 

 voting to be adopted on the Gth June, by the General Secretary. 



