LIXNEAJ!? SOCIETY OF LONDON. 7 



]\Ir. James Melville Macouu, C.M.G., Corr.F.Z.S.,\vas propDsed 

 as a Fellow. 



The President announced that owing to illness, Prof. W. A. 

 Herdinan, F.E.S., had been prevented from attending to ])resent 

 a paper by Miss Euth C. Bamber, on the Fishes of the Sudan 

 Coast, but that it was hoped the Society might have that pleasure 

 on a later date. 



Professor W. J. Dakin, F.L.S., submitted an account of the 

 recent Percy Sladen Trust Expedition carried out under his 

 direction, to investigate the structure and fauna of the Abrolhos 

 Islands. 



The islands are situated 40-50 miles off the coast of AVest 

 Australia. They are interesting because of the almost complete 

 lack of knowledge concerning the marine fauna of that ])art of 

 the world. In addition, however, they possess many pecidiar 

 features of their own. Although they are coral islands (the most 

 southern in the world), the land fauna is decidedly continentnl 

 and indicates a comparatively recent connection with the mainland 

 of Australia. 



The lecture, which was illustrated by a series of lantern -slides, 

 was followed by remarks from Commander Walker (who recalled 

 his experience on the islands, when they were visited by H.^LS. 

 ' Penguin '), Dr. J. Murie, and Mr. H. N. Dixon, Prof. Dakin 

 replying. 



February 4th, 1915. 

 Prof. E. B. PouLTOX, F.K.S., President, in the Chair. 



The Minutes of the General Meeting of the 21st January, 

 1915, were read and continued. 



Mr. Rioliard Francis Towndrow was elected an Associate. 



Prof. Hebdmax, F.R.S., F.L.S., explained tlie chief points in 

 a " Eeport on Fishes collected by Dr. Crossland from llie 

 Sudanese Coast of the Eed Sea," by Eutk C. Bamber. M.Sc. 

 (Communicated by Prof. W. A. Herdman, F.E.S., F.LS.) 



The Eev. T. E. E. Stebbing, F.E.S., F.L.S., liaving put a 

 question. Prof. Herdman replied. 



Dr. Marie C. Stopes, F.L.S., exhibited and described a fossil 

 of doubtful affinity, and stated that the fossil was found in sita 

 by the exhibitor in the Lower Greensand at Luccomb Chine, in a 

 horizon in which a number of new plants as well as the famous 

 Bennettites Gihsonianus have been discovered. 



