4 PEOCEEDIXGS OF THE 



Prof. Deis'dt exhibited two living specimens of Peripatus from, 

 the Cape, which he had succeeded in keeping in excellent health, 

 by supplying them Avith woodlice as food. Dr. Murie and the 

 Eev. T. K. K. Stebbing contributed additional remarJ^s. 



Mr. G. C. Dktjce showed dried specimens of Linaria arenaria, 

 DC, which he had gathered near Barnstaple this autumn, but 

 which had no pretension to be native, as it had been sown there 

 fifteen years earlier. Further he exhibited herbarium specimens 

 of Leontodon hirtus var. Prisfis, G. C. Druce, from Guernsey and 

 Alderney, and Picris Meracioides var. incana, G. C. Druce, from 

 the latter island. 



The President, Eev. T. E. E. Stebbing, Prof. J. B. Parmer, 

 Mr. J. C. Shenstone, Mr. P. K. Williams, and Prof. Dendy took 

 part in the discussion which follo\^•ed, the last speaker calling 

 attention to the ti'ansportation of animal organisms with living 

 plants. 



The following papers were read : — 



1 . " Abnormal Structures in Leaves and their Value in Mor- 



phology." By W. C. WoRSDELL, P.L.S. 



2. "Two New Species of Amphipoda." By the Eev. T. E. E. 



Stebbing, M.A., P.E.S., P.L.S. 



3. "The Preservation of Specimens in Australian Museums.'' 



By J. G. Otto Teppee, P.L.S. 



December 5th, 1907. 



Prof. W. A. Heedman, P.E.S., President, in the Chair. 



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

 1907, were read and confirmed. 



The following persons were proposed as Pellows : — Mr. "Walter 

 Barratt, Mr. Prederick James Chitrendeu, Mr. AValter Edward 

 CoUinge, M.Sc, P.E.S., Mr. Arthur AVilliam Hill, M.A. (Cantab.), 

 Mr. Joseph Hubert Priestley, B.Sc. (Lond.), and Miss May 

 Evelina Bainbridge, B.Sc. 



The following were elected Pellows ; — Dr. Nelson Annandale, 

 Mr. Stanley Arden, Mr. Henry Atkinson, Dr. Joseph Barker, 

 Dr. Prederic Hungerford Bowman, Mr. David Thomas Gwynne- 

 Vaughan, Mr. James Thomas Hamilton, Prof. Prederick Iveeble, 

 Prof. Alexander Meek, M.Sc, Mr. James AVilliam Oliver, 

 Mr. Linsdall Eiehardson, Mr. John Crosby Smith, Mr. Thomas 

 Southwell, Miss Eva Whitley, and Mr. William liobert Worthing- 

 ton Williams. 



Dr. 0. Stape, P.L.S., exhibited a series of specimens of SjMi'tina 

 Townsendi representing different stages of development and tall 

 and dwarf forms, and for comparison also typical specimens of 

 S. cdterniflora, S. stricta, and, on behalf of Messrs. H. & J. Groves, 



