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formation of tracks by grazing animals. The grooves are often 

 quite bare of vegetation, and therefore open to rapid denudation 

 by rain-water. 



The following papers were read : — 



1. " Notes on Brassica Crosses." By Arthur W. Sutton, 



P.L.S. 



2. " Eevision of the Genus IlUgera." By S. T. Dunn, F.L.S. 



3. " New Coniferae from Formosa," By Bunzo JBLatata. 



(Communicated by W. Botting Hemsley, F.E.S., F.L.S.) 



February 6tb, 1908. 



Dr. A. B. Rendle, M.A., Vice-President, in the Chair. 



The Minutes of the G-eneral Meeting of the 16th January, 1908, 

 were read and confirmed. 



Mr. Walter Barratt and Mr. Arthur William Hill were 

 admitted Fellows. 



The Rev. George Henry Aidan Elrington, D.Sc., Mrs. Marian 

 Sarah Farquharson, Mr. Charles Francis UUathorne Meek, and 

 Miss Winifred Smith were proposed as Fellows. 



Mr. Edward Charles Stuart Baker, Mr. Edward Alfred Cockayne, 

 M.A., B.M. (Oxon.), Miss Emmehue Crocker, and Mr. Philippe 

 Leveque de Vilmorin were elected F'ellows. 



A letter was read from His Excellency Count Wrangel, con- 

 veying the thanks of His Majesty Gustaf V. for the address of 

 sympathy adopted in General Meeting of the 19th December, 

 1907. 



Mr. Horace W. Monckton, Treasurer and V.P., exhibited 

 specimens and lantern-slides of leaf-impressions from the Beading 

 Beds, on behalf of himself and Mr. O. A. Shrubsolb, F.G.S., who 

 was prevented by illness from being present. 



A discussion followed, in which Mr. E. T. Newton, F.E-.S. 

 (visitor), Mr. Clement Reid, F.R.S., Dr. D. H. Scott, F.R.S., 

 Sec.L.S., and the Chairman engaged ; and Mr. Monckton having 

 replied, a vote of thanks to Mr. Shrubsole for his interesting 

 exhibition of specimens was passed. 



The following papers were read : — 



1. " Fruits and Seeds from the Pre-Glacial Beds of Britain and 



the Netherlands." By Clement Eeid, F.E.S. , F.L.S., and 

 Mrs. Eeid, 



2. " On a Method of Disintegrating Peat and other Deposits 



containing Fossil Seeds." By Mrs. E. M. Eeid. (Com- 

 municated by Clement Eeid, F.E.S,, F.L.S.) 



