4 PHOCEEDrjTGS Or IHZ 



December 21at, 1S93. 



Prof. Chabuis Stewabt, President, in tlie Cliair. 



The Mmntes of the last Meeting were read and confirmed. 



3Iessrs. George Edward Joseph Grreene and Arthur €r. Tansdey 



•were elected Fellows. 



Mr. P. L. Srmmonds exhibited a collection of Xew Zealand 

 M:5-~ : : ur^ v 3Ir. G. ^. Simmonds while surrejing in 

 H.AI.^. ?_: ::^.- 



The President exhibited and described two curions examples 

 :" " - Ants and Plants, viz. : Iridomyrmex eaudatus with 



__ Beccari, stnd Camponofusj^lanatuswithPseMdomyrma 



£cl:.. :. r ..LIT :'Lr Acaeia Hindsii. 



31: . Z II : _ T ': ited some shells of Ttamorbig 

 •wli::_ 1 . . -_ :ae riverside at W^bridge, and firnn 



5 _ V . _ : ; <e^ were curiouslj bisected. 



I: ' Z^ letter of Dr. Stephen Hales (the author of 



a V : _ : Staticks," and a fiiend and neighbour of 



Gil- : I'jund amongst the papers of the late 



Sir L ; _ , r:_. __ _:.wn to the Meeting by Mr. Geoi^ 

 Murray, an exeeLent engraved portrait of the writer w^s ex- 

 hibited by 3Ir. Harring and presented to the Society. 



The foUowizig - :^- e rs were read : — 



1. " An Enumeration of all Orchidesp hitherto recorded from 

 Borneo.' By H. X. Eidley, F.L.S. 



2. " Hepaticae collected by W. E. Elliort in the islands of St. 

 Tincent and D:r::iri:3." By E. Spruce, A.L.S. 



January 18th, 189J. 



Mr. WrcLiAiT C'\KTtrrgEBS, Yice-Preaident, in the Chair. 



The Minutes of the last Meeting were read and confirmed. 



Sir Hng^ Low and MJessrs. George Bell Bothera and Thomas 

 Sim were elected FeQows. 



The Chairman, before proceeding to the busine^ of the 

 erening, referred to the loss which the Society had sustained by 

 the recent death of Mr. Eichard Spruce, who had travelled 

 and collec-ted much in South America, and was a recognized 

 audiarity on Hepaticse. He also feelingly alluded to the death 

 of Mr. Algernon Peckover, who had been a Pellow of the Society 

 snce the year 1S27, and had bequeathed to it a legacy of £100. 



