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Mr. C. F. M. SwrNNERTo?i, F.L.S., then gave an account of his 

 paper " Experimeats and Observatious on the Interpretation of 

 Form and Coloration in Plants and Animals," which was illustrated 

 by specimens and lantern-slides. 



The President remarked that the paper offered numerous 

 points for discussion, which was prevented by the lateness of the 

 hour. 



May 6th, 1915. 

 Prof. E. B. PouLTON, F.E-.S., President, in the Chair. 



The Minutes of the Greneral Meeting of the loth April, 1915, 

 were read and confirmed. 



Mr, Arthur Edwax'd Groodraan and Miss Harriet May Robinson 

 were proposed as Fellows. 



Mr. Sidney Edwards Pou^net was elected a Fellow. 



Professors Maurice Caullery (Pat-is), Charles Henri Marie 

 Flahault (Montpellier), and Jacques Loeb (Chicago) were elected 

 Foreign Members. 



Mr. W. Pbrcival Westell, F.L.S., read a paper " Some Bird 

 Problems," derived from thirty years' observation of British inland 

 birds. The author discussed anomalies of habit and structure in 

 the order of the list recently issued by the British Ornithologists' 

 Union, and asked for help in attempting to clear up some of the 

 facts narrated. 



Dr. Murie, Mr. W. C. Worsdell, and the President added some 

 remarks. 



Dr. Sarah M. Baker, F.L.S., and Miss Maude H. Bohling, 

 B.Sc, contributed a paper, " On the Brown Seaweeds of the 

 Salt Marsh. — II. On their Classification, Morphology, and 

 Ecology." 



Mr. H. N. Dixon, M.A., F.L.S., followed with " On a Collec- 

 tion of Borneo Mosses made by the Rev. C. H. Binstead," from 

 the coast region, and both author and collector regretted that so 

 small a proportion of the rich moss-flora from the slopes of Mount 

 Kinabalu had been gathered by anyone. The author pointed out 

 curious facts in the distribution of some mosses, and the con- 

 sequent suppression of certain recent names of so-called 



