66 PROCEEDINGS OF THE 



Mr. Archibald Joseph Brooks and Mr. Edward Edgar Pescott, 

 "were proposed as Fellows. 



Mr. James Donald and Mr. Leslie Frank Newman, M.A.. 

 (Cantab.), were elected Eellows, 



The President announced that he bad appointed the following to 

 he Vice-Presidents for the ensuing year : — Sir Frank Crisp, Bt., 

 Mr. Horace W. Mokckton (Treasurer), Pi*of. A. C. Seward, and 

 Dr. A. Smith "Woodavard. 



The President exhibited eight coloui*ed slides of Lepidoptera 

 in situ, by Mr. A. H. Haman of the Hope Department, Oxford. 

 The very successful rendering of the natural tints had been 

 obtained by the Paget Colour Process. 



He also showed a remarkable case of mimicry where a Fossorial 

 wasp was mimicked in habit and method of flying, by a Eeduviid 

 bug, and a Locustid. The examples were found flying together 

 in a forest road between Santos and S. Vicente, Brazil; by Dr. 

 A. Seitz of Darmstadt. 



Mrs. LoNGSTAEP, F.L.S., exhibited a striking specimen of 

 synanthy in the Foxglove, which had grown in Dr. Longstaff's 

 garden ; whilst recalling the specimen shown by Sir Frank Crisp 

 on the 15th June, 1911, it had a larger and more open terminal 

 and synanthic flower. 



Dr. Stapf commented on the interest of this exhibition. 



Mr. Horace AV. Monckton, Treas. & V.P., showed a flower of 

 Sisyrinchiwn angvstifoUum, Mill., which had been found on 

 Dartford Heath a short time before. 



Mr. C. H. Wright, A.L.S., recalled other localities where this 

 alien had been gathered. Dr. Stapf added a few remarks. 



Miss L. S. GiBBS, F.L.S., then gave an abstract of her paper 

 entitled " A Contribution to the Flora and Plant-Formations of 

 Kinabaluand the Highlands of British North Borneo," illustrating 

 her remarks with a series of lantern-slides. 



A discussion followed, the participants being Mr. H. N. Ridley, 

 Dr. Stapf, the Rev. T. R. R. Stebbing, and Mr. E. G. Baker, 

 Miss Gijabs briefly replying. 



Mr. Hugh Scott, M.A., F.L.S., contributed a paper on the 

 Histeridae of the Percy Sladen Expedition to the Seychelles, which 

 was read in title. 



Mr. A. D. Cotton, F.L.S., explained the principal points of 

 Mme. WEBEE-van Bosse's paper on the Red Marine Algae from 



