PROCEEDINGS OF THE 



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

 Erskine Loder, J.P., i».L., M.A. (Cantab.), LL.B., were elected 

 Tellows. 



The Teeasuree exhibited a copy of ' Fauna HaAvaiiensis,' bound 

 in four volumes, recently acquired for the Society out of the 

 income of the Tagart Bequest. 



Mrs. Hexshaw gave an account of the journey into the interior 

 of Vancouver Island, made by Mr. Henshaw and herself, illus- 

 trated \\ith a series of photographs of the scenery aud the more 

 striking plants. 



A discussion followed, Dr. Eendle, Dr. C. E. Moss, Mr. A. H. 

 Maude, Dr Stapf, aud Dr. Youug taking part in it, Mrs. Hen- 

 sliavv replying. 



The second paper was read hy Mr. H. A. Batlis, B.A. (Oxou.), 

 entitled " ttou)e Observations on the Tentacles of Blennius gaito- 

 ragine," which was communicated by Prof. G. C. Bourne, E.E.S., 

 Sec.L.S. 



Prof. G. C. Bourne and the President contributed further 

 remarks, to which the author replied. 



Mr. G. Claridge Deuce, M. A., E.L.S., read a paper on a Marsh 

 Orchis for \\ liich he proposed the name Orchis prcetermissa (a 

 Latin description being giveji), and contrasted it with the true 

 flesh-coloured 0. incaniata of Liunseus, as described by C. B. 

 Clarke in Journ. Linn. Soc. xix. (1881) 206, showing how it dif- 

 fered from that plant in the shape of the flowers and in other 

 characters. 0. 2)ii''-^'termissa is the crimson-flowered plant which 

 has a wide distribution through soutli and central England. A 

 painting oF it has been executed by Miss Trower fi'om a seedling 

 raised by Mr. B. Savile Ogle, who had collected the parent plant 

 before 1903 on the borders oi: Berkshire and Hants. The seedlings 

 obtained from it resembled each other and the parent in all the 

 stages of their growth. The parent was figured as 0. incarnata 

 in the ' Eeport of the Ashmolean Natural History Society of 

 Oxfordshire ' for 1904. 



Mr. Druce himself collected the plants in Nottinghamshire in 

 1878, in Oxfordshire in 1882, in Berkshire and in Norfolk. 



Mr. P. M. Hall and Mr. E. B. Dllman, who have studied the 

 Orchids from round AVinchester with great assiduity, expressed 

 independently the o])inion that it was a distinct species (a note on 

 it appears in the cm-tailed ' Eeport of the Winchester College 

 Nat. Hist. Society '); they found it abundantly in Hampshire. A 

 photograph hy Mr. Bedford showed that it occurred near Lewes 

 in Sussex. 



