PEOCEEDINGS OP THE 



Dr. Stapf, r.E.S., Sec.L.S., and Mr. John Hopkinson, who 

 introduced the exhibition, spoke on the subject. 



December 19th, 1912. 



Prof. E. B. PoiTLTON, P.R.S., President, in the Chair. 



The Minutes of the General Meeting of the 5th December, 1912,. 

 were read and confirmed. 



Dr. Charles Edward Moss, Mr. Francis Henry Sikes, and 

 Miss Alice Hibbert-Ware, were admitted Eellows. 



The Eev. Henry Bride Barber, and Mr. Edward Thomas 

 Browne, M.A. (Oxon.), were proposed as Eellows. 



Mr. John Davidson was elected a Fellow. 



The President having, in accordance with previous announce- 

 ment, declared the Meeting to be made a Special General Meeting 

 for the election of a member of the Council in the place of 

 Mr. Henry Groves deceased, the General Secretary read the Bye- 

 Laws governing such election, and the Fellows present proceeded 

 to vote. 



The Ballot having been closed, the President appointed Dr. A. 

 B. Eendle, Mr. A. D. Michael, and Mr. John Hopkinson, 

 Scrutineers, and the Votes having been examined and cast up, 

 they reported to the President, who thereupon declared that 

 Sir Frank Crisp, J. P., had been elected a Councillor. 



The President announced that the Council had that afternoon 

 sent a telegram of congratulation to Sir Joiiisr Kirk, G.C.M.G., 

 who had attained his 80th birthday, having been born on the 

 19th December, 1832. 



Mr. Cecil H. Hooper then gave an account entitled " Experi- 

 ments on the Pollination of our Hardy Fruits, w^ith observations 

 on the Insect visitors to the blossoms," illustrating the same with 

 lantern-slides. He stated that strawberries, provided there is 

 wind, set fruit well without insects. Raspberries and loganberries 

 generally set fruit imperfect in shape if insects are excluded. 

 Eed, white, and black currants and gooseberries, owing to the 

 construction of their flowers and pollen (which is glutinous), 

 cannot be pollinated and set their fruit without the visits of 

 insects, more particularly hive and humble bees. All the 

 previously-mentioned plants set fruit perfectly with pollen of the 

 same variety or even of the same flower ; but with the apple, 

 pear, plum, and cherry, this is not always the case, many 

 varieties being self-sterile, and almost all produce more abundant 



