IINNEAX SOCIETY OF LOXDOX, 1 1 



Mr, L. A. BoREADAiLE, M.A. — " Land and Freshwater Crustacea." 



Mr. P. Camerois". — " Hymenoptera." 



Mr, F. F. Laidlaw. — "Dragon-Flies," 



M. A. FoEEL, — " Fourmis des Seychelles, Amirantes, Farquhar 



et Chagos." 

 Prof, G. H. Carpexter. — " Pycnogonida." 

 Dr, H. F. Gadow, F.E,S., and Mr. J. Stanley Gardiner, 



F,L,S.— "Aves."' 



March 7th, 1907. 



Prof. W. A, Herdman, F.E.S., President, in the Chair, 



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

 1907, were read and confirmed, 



Mr. William Percival Westell and Mr. Eowland Edgar Nicholas 

 were proposed as Fellows, 



Mr, Frederick William Cousens and Mr. Gregory Macalister 

 Mathews were elected Fellows. 



The Meeting having been declared Special in accordance with 

 the notice previously sent out as required by Bye-Laws, Chap. VIII. 

 Sect. XL, the Fellows present proceeded to vote for a Zoological 

 Secretary in the place of the Eev. Thomas Eoscoe Eede Stebbing, 

 resigned. 



The Ballot being closed the President appointed Mr. Herbert 

 Druce, Mr. John Hopkinson, and Mr. Henry Groves, Scrutineers : 

 the votes having been cast up, the Scrutineers reported to the 

 President, who thereupon declared that Prof. Arthur Dendy had 

 been unanimously elected Zoological Secretary, 



The President then moved a vote of thanks to the retiring 

 Secretary, which was spoken to by Mr, Horace W. Monckton, 

 Dr, D. JH[. Scott, and Mr. B. Daydon Jackson, whereupon the 

 vote was carried by acclamation. 



Dr, James MuErE, F.L.S., exhibited a portion of a human skull 

 with a growth of Sahellaria alveolata and several hydroids upon it ; 

 it had been dredged near the Black Deep in the Thames estuary. 

 The President commented on the exhibit, and Dr, Murie replied, 



Messrs. H. & J. Groves, F.L.S., exhibited a series of specimens of 

 Nitella ornithopoda, A. Braun, collected by the Eev. Canon Bullock- 

 Webster. This rare species has only been found in a small 

 district in the West of France, from Augouleme in the north to 

 the south of Arcachon, and doubtfully in one locality in Portugal. 

 The especial interest of the specimens exhibited, which were 



