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and Ml-. Mudurnakkurfi Venkata Eau, M.A. (Madras), were 

 elected Eellows, and Prof. Eobert Chodat and Prof. Eicliard 

 Wettstein, Eitter von Westersheim, were elected Foreign 

 Members. 



The President announced that the Council had decided to award 

 the Linnean Medal at the forthcoming Anniversary Meeting to 

 Prof. Otto Butschli, of Heidelberg. 



Mr. H. N. EiDLEY, C.M.G., F.E.S., P.L.S., then gave an 

 account of " The Botany of the Utakwa Expedition, Dutch Kew 

 Gruinea," which had been worked up by various botanists. He 

 stated that the extensive collection of plants made by Mr. C. B. 

 Ivloss during Mr. Wollaston's expedition to Mt. Carstensz, Dutch 

 New Guinea, in ] 912-13, is the most important collection of 

 New Guinea plants brought to this country. 



Mr. A. P. E. Wollaston exhibited a series of photographs of 

 the scenerv and vegetation taken during the expeditioi], and 

 Major Gage, Dr. A. B. Eendle, Mr. E. G. Baker, and Dr. Otto 

 Stapf discussed the paper. 



Prof. G. C. Bourne, Sec.L.S., gave an abstract of a short paper 

 by Mr. Geofftiey W. Smith, E.L.S., "The Genus Lemceodiscus, 

 P. Miiller, 1862." 



Major Gage then showed lantern-slides, (1) of views in the 

 Botunic Gardens at Sibpur, Calcutta, and (2) the Government 

 Cinchona plantations in Bikkim. 



Dr. Otto Stapf, Sec.L.S., explained the chief points of a brief 

 paper by Dr. J. C. Willis, P.L.S., "A new Natural Order of 

 Flowering Plants : Tristichaceaj," separated from Podostemacese. 



There was exhibited for Mr. James Hornell, F.L.S., " The 

 forced or cultural production of free, spherical Pearls; a pre- 

 liminary note on a new method," together viith specimens in jars 

 of (1) a dissection of a species of Unio having an induced free 

 pearl in the tissues of the anterior adductor muscle, (2) three 

 minute pearls from the mantle of the Indian and Ceylon pearl- 

 oyster, Margaritifera vulgaris, Schumacher, and (3) two pieces of 

 the mantle of two other individuals of the same species con- 

 taining three other free pearls, all produced by artificial stimulus, 

 but tlie precise method was not disclosed. The minute pearls 

 were shown under a microscope. 



