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The following papers were read : — 



1. " On Calamites (Calamitina) ScJmtzei, 8tur., and on the 



correspondence between the length of internodes and the 

 position and function of the short internode in the genus 

 Calamites and in the recent Equisetaceae." By A. R. 

 HoRwooD. (Communicated by E. E. Lowe, F.L.S.) 



2. " Cephalocorda — Amphioxides — of the 'Sealark' Expedition." 



By H. 0. S. GriBso^f, B.A. (Communicated by J. Stanley 

 Gabdixer, E.R.S., E.L.S.) 



3. "Alcyonaria of the 'Sealark' Expedition." By Prof. J. 



Arthur Thomson. (Communicated by the same.) 



June ITth, 1D09. 



Sir Frank Crisp, Vice-President, in the Chair. 



The Minutes of the General Meeting of the 3rd June, 1 909, 

 were read and confirmed. 



Mr. Thomas Parkin, M.A., was proposed as a Fellow. 



Mr. William Booth Waterfall, Mrs. Mary Jane Longstaff, 

 Mr. Eichard Williams Harold Row, and Mr. William Eoberfc 

 Price, B.A. Cantab., were admitted Fellows. 



Mr. William Dennis and Mr. Edward John Woodhouse, 

 B.A, Cantab., were elected Fellows. 



A letter congratulating Sir Joseph Hooker on his approachiug 

 92nd birthday was read from the Chair, and signed by the Fellows 

 present. 



The following papers were I'ead : — 



1. " On the Growth of a Species of BattareaP By J. G. Orro 



Tepper, F.L.S. (Abstract, see p. 54.) 



2. " The Deposits in the Indian Ocean." By Sir John Murray, 



K.C.B., F.R.S., F.L.S. 



3. " The ' Sealark ' Penaeidea, Stenopidea, and Reptantia." By 



L. A. BoRRADAiLE. (Comuiunicated by J. Stanley 

 Gardiner, M.A., F.R.S., F.L.S.) 



4. " The ' Sealark ' Polychaeta." By F. A. Potts. (Communi- 



cated by the same.) 

 o. "The 'Sealark' Lepidoptei-a."' By T. Bainbrigge Fletcher. 



(Likewise communicated.) 

 6. " Report on the Porifera cullecled by Mr. Cyril Crossland 



in the Red Sea ; Part L Calcarea"." By R. W. Harold 



Row, B.Sc, F.L.S. 



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