8 PROCEEDINGS or THE 



area 5 are annual, the remainder perennial. He concluded with 

 the suggestion that the domesticated rices are probably poly- 

 phyletic, most having originated from the Wild Eices of area 2, 

 and some from those of area 3 and possibly 5. 



Dr. Eendle, the President, and the General Secretary contri- 

 buted further remarks, Dr. Stapf replying. 



Mr. J. T. N. Thomas exhibited an aquatic plant, a long-leaved 

 form of Elodea canadensis, Nutt., in which the rotation of the 

 protoplasm could be observed better than in the normal form. He 

 had obtained it from a tank containing goldfish in a small shop, 

 and all the information he could obtain was that it came with the 

 fish from " France." 



Miss May Eathbone brought a fresh inflorescence of the 

 banana, Musa sajnentum, Linn., as an exhibition. 



January 16th, 1913. 

 Prof. E. B. PouLTON, P.E.S., President, in the Chair. 



The Minutes of the General Meeting of the 16th December, 

 1912, were read and confirmed. 



Mr. Henry Edward Irving Taylor, M.A. (Cantab.), was ad- 

 mitted a EeUow. 



Mr. .Tames Ebenezer Black, E.E.S., and Mr. Banawari Lai 

 Chandhuri, B.A., B.Sc. (Edin.), E.E.S.E., were proposed as 

 JFellows. 



Mr. John Harrison was elected a Eellow. 



The President announced that the Council had decided to apply 

 the bequest of £100 left by Sir Joseph Hooker to the Society, as 

 the nucleus of a fund to be styled " The Sir Joseph Hooker 

 Lecture " Eund, of which particulars will be given at the next 

 General Meeting. 



Prof. G. C. Bourne, E.E.S., Sec.L.S., then gave an account of 

 the visit to Madagascar by the Hon. Paul Methuen in search of 

 subfossil Lemuroids, illustrating his remarks by lantern-slides of 

 the country traversed. 



Dr. Smith Woodward, Mr. de Gaye, and the President discussed 

 certain aspects of the report. 



