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previous accouut of African ornithophilous flowers, read on the 

 5th INJarch last, and showiDg photographs of injured shoots of 

 Kibes on the screen. 



A paper by the late INIr. William West, F.L.S., '-Ecological 

 Notes, chiefly Cryptogamic," was read in abstract by Dr. O. 

 Stapf, F.R.S., Sec.L.S., who remarked that this paper was the 

 outcome of a suggestion by Prof. Engler, F.M.L.S., that whilst 

 abundance of observations existed of ecological facts regardino- 

 phanerogams, the cryptogams had been neglected. This paper 

 Avas intended as the first of a series, which has been cut short by 

 the unexpected and lamented death of the author, but who had 

 sent in the summary i-ead. 



The following papers were, in the absence of their respective 

 authors, read in title : — 



Mr. R. J. TiLLTARD, M.A., r.E.S.— Life-Histories and 

 Descriptions of Australian ^schninse. With a Descrip- 

 tion of a new Form of Telephehia by Herbert Campion. 

 (Communicated by Prof. W. A. Haswell, E.R.S 

 E.L.S.) 



Miss Olga G. M. Patxb, B.Sc— On the Life-History and 

 Structure of Telephorus litaratus. (Communicated by 

 Dr. A. D. Imms, F.L.S.) 



Mr. A. Geooyelle. — Cucujidae, Cryptophagidse, avec una 

 description de la larve et de la nymphe de Protominia 

 convexiusciila, Grouvelle. (Communique par M. le pro- 

 fesseur J. Stanley Gardiner, F.R.S., F.L.S.) 



Mr. Hugh Scott, M.A., F.L.S. — Mallophaga, Aphaniptera, 

 and Diptera Puparia. (Percy Sladen Expedition.) 



The General Secretary read an extract from a letter addressed 

 to him by Dr. George Henderson, F.L.S., enclosing photographs 

 of the fat-tailed sheep of the Punjab, which were also shown on 

 the screen, one illustrating a small cart to support the tail of a 

 sheep. 



Dr. Stapf, referring to a remark in Dr. Henderson's letter, said 

 he had seen similar sheep in Persia. 



