12 PKOCEEDINGS OF THE 



3. "A Revision of the Genus Codonopsis." By T. F. Chipp. 



(Communicated by "W. Botting Hemslet, P.R.S., F.L.S.) 



4. '*The Holothurians of the Sudanese Red Sea." By E. 



HiNDLE. (Communicated by the President.) , 



AprU 2nd, 1908. 



Lieut.-Col. Pbain, C.I.E., LL.D., P.R.S., V.-P., in the Chair. 



The Minutes of the General Meeting of the 19th March, 1908, 

 were read and confirmed. 



Miss Winifred Smith, Mr. Edward Alfred Cockayne, Mr. David 

 Thomas Gwynne-Vaughan, and Mrs. Harriet Isabel Adams were 

 admitted Eellows. 



Mr. Charles Aubrey Ealand was proposed as a Eellow. 



Mr. Hugh Broughton and Fleet- Surgeon Charles Geekie 

 Matthew were elected Fellows. 



The Rev. John Geraed, S.J., F.L.S. , exhibited lantern-slides 

 of " Vegetable Imitations or Mimicries," amongst them Ophrys 

 muscifera and 0. apifera, Veronica tetragona, once described as a 

 G-ymnosperm, and a Dacrydium which closely resembles it, and 

 instances from the genus Lysimachia which appear to mimic Paris 

 and other remote genera by their habit and foliage. 



Prof. Dendy, Prof. Weiss, and the Vice-President in the Chair, 

 contributed remarks on the subject. 



The following papers were read : — 



1. " The Anatomy of some Sapotaceous Seedlings," By Miss 



Winifred Smith, B.Sc, F.L.S. 



2. " Notes on some Sponges recently collected irk Scotland." 



By Dr. Nelson Annandale, F.L.S. 



May 7th, 1908. 

 Prof. W. A. Heedman, D.Sc, F.R.S., President, in the Chair. 



The Minutes of the General Meeting of the 2nd April, 1908, 

 were read and confirmed. 



Fleet-Surgeon Charles Geekie Matthew, Monsieur Philippe 

 Leveque de Vilmorin, Mr. Hamilton Herbert Charles James 

 Druee, Mr. Reginald Evelyn Child Beale, the Rev. George Henry 

 Aidan Elrington, D.Sc, and Mr. Frederick James Chittenden 

 were admitted Fellows. 



