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as a memorial to Capt. Hutton, F.E.S. ; it had been modelled by 

 Prof. E, Lauteri, showing on the obverse a portrait of Hutton, 

 and on the reverse S2:>7ienodon j^unctatus, A2)ten/x ; Phorminm tenax, 

 Cordyline australis, and a Celmisia for the fauna and flora, whilst 

 geology was represented by a geologist's hammer and a distant 

 range of volcanoes. ' 



Mr. L. A. Boodle, !F.L.S., exhibited a preparation and drawings 

 of a remarkable gall sent from Bombay by Mr. T^^. A. Talbot, 

 F.L.S., Conservator of Forests. Prof. Trail and Dr. Stapf dis- 

 cussed certain points, and Mr. Boodle replied. 



Dr. Otto Stapf, F.E.S., Sec.L.S., referred to Mr. Scott Elliot's 

 problematical plant, described and discussed in Jouru. Linn. Soc, 

 Bot. vol. XXX. (1894) p. 155, t. 8, and identified by M. H. Hua 

 with Lepidagathis Pobef/uinii. He produced one of Scott Elliot's 

 specimens, and explained bow from the presence of c^'stoliths in 

 the epidermis in connection with the peculiar distribution of the 

 phloem in the stem the affinity of the plant might have been 

 ascertained in spite of the absence of inflorescences. 



The President, Miss A. L. Smith, and Mr. Boodle commented 

 on the exhibition. 



The following papers were read : — 



1. " Notes on some Parasitic Copepoda, with a description of a 



new species of Clwndr acanthus, i. e. C. ivjlahis." By Miss 

 Mat E. BAiyBEiDGE, B.Sc, F.L.S. 



2. " On some Nemei-teans from the Eastern Indian Ocean." 



By E. C. PunjS'ett, M.A., and C. Foester Coopee, M.A. 



(Communicated by J. Stanley G-aedinee, M.A., F.E.S., 

 F.L.S.) 



3. " Eeport on the Echinoderms (other than Holothurians) 



collected by Mr. Stanley (xardiner in the Yrestern parts 

 of the Indian Ocean." By Prof. F. Jeffrey Bell, M.A. 

 (Communicated by the same.) 



November 19th, 1908. 



Dr. D. H. Scott, M.A., F.E.S., President, in the Chair. 



On tiaking the Chair, the President announced that, accompanied 

 by Dr. Stapf and the General Secretary, he had been received in 

 audience by H.M. the King of Sweden, at Windsor, Mho signed 

 the Eoll and Charter Book as an Honorary Member. 



The Minutes of the General Meeting of the 5th November were 

 head and confirmed. 



