LIXNEAy SOCIETY OF LOKDOS". 3 



led to his aud Eoland Triuien's papers on the same subject iu the 

 ' Transactions.' He also read before the Society on June 18, 

 1896, his last scientific paper — on the Utility of Specific Cha- 

 racters; and no Fellow who was preseat at the Society's 

 celebration on July 1, 1908, of the 50th anniversary of the 

 joint essay on natural selection, can ever forget the words iu 

 which Wallace spoke of his illustrious fellow-worker. The Pre- 

 sident then proposed a vote of condolence with the deceased 

 naturalist's family, which was tendered by the wliole of the 

 Fellows present rising in their places. 



The President then spoke of the Hooker Lecture Fund, to 

 which the Fellows had liberally subscribed, the amount of X300 

 being already invested as a fund to enable the Society to invite 

 distinguished foreigners, both from America and Europe, to 

 deliver lectures on similar work to tliat achieved by Sir Joseph 

 Hooker. He therefore invited further contributions. 



Mr. H. J. Elwes, F.R.S., F.L.S., then delivered his lecture 

 on "The Travels of Sir Joseph Hooker in the Sikkim Himalaya," 

 which was illustrated by specimens, drawings, maps, and lantern- 

 slides. 



December 4th, 1913. 



Prof. E. B. PouLTOK, F.E.S., President, in the Chair, 



The Minutes of the General Meeting of the I'Oth Xovember, 

 1913, were read and confirmed. 



Mr. Loftus St. George Byne, M.Sc, and Mr. Gerald Walter 

 Erskine Loder, were proposed as Fellows. 



Miss INIaude Lina West Cleghorn, Mr. Alfred Eastham, 

 B.Sc. (Toronto), jNlr. Arthur Samuel Home, B.Sc. (Loud.), 

 Mr. Arthur Eegiuald Horwood, Mr. James John Joicey, Mr. 

 Harold Henry Xing, and Miss Agues Whateley Thomson, were 

 elected Fellows. 



Prof. John PEECivAii, F.L.S., exhibited specimens of wild 

 wheat. Triticum dicoccoides, Koeru., from Mount Hermon, 

 Palestine, aud gave an account of his experiments in cultivatiug 

 various forms of wheat from all available sources. 



Dr. Gates, Dr. Otto Stapf, and Mr. Frederick J. Hanbury 

 contributed further remarks on the exhibition. 



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