70 PROCEEDINGS OF THE 



Miss Eleanor Pearse and Mr. James Moore Williams were 

 proposed as Fellows. 



Miss Helen Stuart Chambers, B.Sc, Mr. K'orman Gill, and 

 Mr. Henry Herbert Travers were severally balloted' for and 

 elected Fellows. 



Mrs. Habet GrAT exhibited a volume of drawings of plants from 

 the Island of Bombay, part of a series of 1700 she had painted 

 during a residence there of fourteen years. 



Mr. C. H. Weight, A.L.S., exhibited on behalf of Mr. J. F. 

 DuTHiE, F.L.S., specimens of Melitella imsilki, a new genus 

 of Compositse descinbed recently by Cav. Sommier, from material 

 collected by him in the island of Gozo, near Malta. Dr. Stapf> 

 Mr. Worsdell, and the President joined in a discussion. 



Mr. W. C. WoESDELL, F.L.S., exhibited a lax'ge series of seedlings 

 of the Scarlet Runner bean, Phaseolus multijiorus, exhibiting 

 artificial fasciation induced by cutting away the plumule early in 

 its growth. The President and Dr. Stapf contributed some 

 remarks, the Author briefly replying. 



The following papers were read : — 



1. " Altitude and Distribution of Plants in Southern Mexico."' 



By Dr. Hans Gadow, F.E.S. (Communicated by Dr. A. 

 B. Rendle, F.L.S.) 



2. " Reports ou the Marine Biology of the Sudanese Red Sea 



from Collections made by Cyril Crossland, M.A., B.Sc, 

 F.Z.S., together with Collections made in the Red Sea by 

 Dr. R. Hartmeyer. — On the Bryozoa, Part I. Cheilo- 

 stomata." By Aethue Wm. Watees, F.L.S. 



3. " The Alg£e of the Tau Tean Reservoir." By G. S. West, 



F.L.S. 



4. " On Gardenia Thunhergia and its allies." By Dr. Otto 



Staff, F.R.S., Sec.L.S., and J. Hutchinson. 



5. " The Marine Algae collected in the Indian Ocean by H.M.S. 



' Sealark.' " By A. Gepp, M. A., F.L.S. 



6. "Nudibranchs from the Red Sea, collected by Mr. C. 



Crossland." By Sir Chaeles Eliot, K.C.M.G. (Com- 

 municated by Prof. Heedman, F.R.S,, F.L.S.) 



I 



