LI>XEAX SOCIETY OF LOyDOX. 1 5 



Mr. E. Allet^^ Eolfe, A.L.S., exhibited a series of coloured 

 drawings of live hybrid 0])lirvses, raised by Mr. Fernand Denis, 

 Balariic-les-Bains, France, from Ophrys tenthreclinifera, "Willd., 

 crossed with the pollen of 0. aranifera, Huds. ; together with 

 the two parents. This was believed to be the first hybrid Ophrys 

 raised artificially, and it proved the origin of a natural hybrid that 

 has been recorded from three localities in Italy, and is known 

 under the names of 0. Grampinii, Cortesi, and 0. etrusca, Asch. 

 & Grlibn. The hybrids varied somewhat between themselves, 

 but all showed an unmistakable combination of the characters of 

 the two parents, particularly in the colour and markings of the 

 lip, and in the peculiar combination of rose and green in the 

 sepals and petals. Mr. Denis has a batch of some forty seedlings 

 in flower or bud. At least eighteen natural hybrid Ophryses 

 have been recorded, and Mr. Eolfe believed there were others. 

 He would be greatly obliged to anyone who would send him 

 examples, as he is studying them. 



Dr. A. B. Eendle referred to Ihe importance of these observa- 

 tions and experiments as tending to clear up the doubts as to the 

 afiinities of many of these allied forms, so troublesome from a 

 taxonomic point of view. 



The two following papers w^ere read in title : — Prof. Cuaeles 

 Chilton, LL.D., F.L.S., "A new Amphipodan Genus and Species 

 (Family Dexaminidae) from New Zealand"; and Prof. E. B. 

 PouLTON, F.E.S., P.L.S., "Mr. W. A. Lamborn's Breeding Ex- 

 periments upon Acrcen encedon (Linn.), in the Lagos District of 

 West Africa, 1910-1912." 



May 7th, 1914. 



Prof. E. B. PoLaTo:N", F.E.S,, President, in the Chair. 



The Minutes of the General Meeting of the 2nd April, 1914, 

 were read and confirmed. 



Mr. Eiic Marsden Jones and Dr. Elleu Marion Delf were 

 admitted Fellows. 



The Eev. John Eobert Lewis Kingou, M.A., Mr. Eobert Eay, 

 B.Sc. (St. And. & Cape), and Miss Clotilde von Wyss were 

 proposed as I^ellows. 



Mr. Francis Druce, M.A., F.E.G.S., the Eev. Edward Francis 

 Linton, M.A. (Oxou.), Mrs. Mary Is'ewman Tremearne, L.L.A., 



