LINNEAN SOCIETY OP LONDON. 69 



Mr, C. E. Salmon, P.L.S,, exhibited a series of original coloured 

 drawings, and lithographs from them, from Descourtilz's ' Ornitho- 

 logie bresilienne.' 



Mr. F. Enock, F.L.S., exhibted a series of lantern-slides 

 illustrative of the life-history of wood-boring wasps, showing 

 their method of capturing prey, and storing the same in their ex- 

 cavated burrows, with the extraordinary faculty shown for seizing 

 the selected species and no other, for the food of the future 

 larvae. He mentioned that one of the species he had had under 

 his own observation had brought to its burrow, in one day, 

 27 specimens of Tipula imperialis, a species so rare that he 

 himself had only met with one specimen during a series of 

 many years. 



The following papers were read : — 



1. "Note on the Spicules of CMrodota geminifera, Dendy & 



Hindle." By Prof. A. Dendt, D.Sc, F.E.S., Sec.L.S. 



2. "The Caryophyllaceae of Tibet." By E. N. Williams, 



E.L.S. 



3. "The Polychaeta of the Indian Ocean."' By F. A. Potts. 



(Communicated by J. Stanley Gtabdiner, M.A., F.R.S., 

 F.L.S.) 



4. " On Koomoif/a cursor • a remarkable new type of malaco- 



stracous Crustacea." By O. A. Saycb. (Communicated 

 by Dr. W. T. Calman, F.L.S.. F.Z.S.) 



5. " The Stylasterina of the Indian Ocean." By Dr. S. J. 



HiCKsON, F.E.S., and Miss Helen M. England. (Com- 

 municated by J. Stanley Gardiner, M.A., F.E..S., 

 F.L.S.) 



6. " A Contribution to the Mycology of South Africa." By 



Messrs, W. N. Cheesman, F.L.S,, and T. Gibbs. 



June 18th, 1908. 



Dr. D. H. Scott, M.A., F.R.S., President, in the Chair; afterwards 

 Dr. A. Smith Woodward, F.R.S.. V.-P. 



The Minutes of the General Meeting of the 4th June were 

 read and confirmed. 



The President referred to the recent disuse of the Library 

 Eecommendation Book by the Fellows, the last entry being nearly 

 five years old. 



Mr. Ernest Melville Cutting was admitted a Fellow. 



