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Mr. James Donald was proposed as a Fellow. 



Mr. Charles Oldham, P.Z.S., and Mrs.Eose Haig Thomas, were 

 elected Fellows. 



The following Auditors for the Treasurer's Accounts were 

 nominated by the Council, and elected by show of hands, namely : 

 for the Council, Mr. Arthur W. Hill and Dr. W. G. Ridewood ; 

 for the Fellows, Mr. John Hopkiuson and Mr. Alfred W. Oke. 



The first paper was by Mr, M. P. Price, M.A., and Mr. N. D, 

 Simpson, B.A., F.R.M.S., who gave an Account of the Plants 

 collected by Mr. M. P. Price on the Carruthers-Miller-Price 

 Expedition through Norbh-west Mongolia and Chinese Dzungaria. 

 (Communicated by Dr. O. Stapf, F.R.S., Sec.L.S.) The paper 

 was illustrated by lantern-slides, showing the character of the 

 country traversed by the expedition. 



Dr. Stapf and Dr. E.endle contributed farther remarks upon the 

 paper, and Mr. Price replied. 



Mr. Edmund G-. Bakek then gave an aecouut of some British 

 varieties of the Bee-Orchis, Oplirys apifera, Huds. He stated 

 that in the typical form of the Bee-Orchis the labellum is broadly 

 convex, with a terminal, reflexed appendage, brown-purple, disk 

 spotted with orange-yellow. In 1840 Hegetschweiler in ' Die 

 Flora der Schweiz ' described and figured Ophrys Trollii, a plant 

 with the middle lobe of the labellum narrowly lanceolate, elongated, 

 purplish-red in the centre, gold at the edge. The three outer 

 perianth-lobes lanceolate-pointed. The plant came from Win- 

 terthur. 



In this country there appear to be a series of intermediate 

 forms connecting the typical form with 0. Trollii, some being 

 more nearly allied to the former, some to the latter. The plant 

 from Reigate, which has been called Trollii, closely approximates 

 to a figure in Eeichenbach's ' Icones,' vol. xiv. t. 457, fig. II., but 

 it is not very like the plant of Hegetschweiler. The plant, on the 

 other hand, figured by Mr. White in the ' Bristol Flora,'* more 

 closely approximates to the true Trollii. There is an interesting 

 note in the ' Phytologist,' n. s. vol. v. p. 175, on some additions 

 to an interleaved copy of Blackstone's ' Hai'efield Plants,' formerly 

 belonging to Peter Collinson, stating that three roots of the Wasp- 

 Orchis were found at Clifton in 1787, the lip being very narrow,, 

 yellow streaked with dark purple. 



There are also plants from Oxford and Lewes which are inter- 

 mediate between the Beigate plant and that from Bristol. 



The President, Dr. Bendle, Dr. K. Domin (visitor"), Mr. C. E. 

 Salmon, and Dr. Stapf discussed certain points, and Mr. Baker 

 replied. 



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