4 PBOCEEDINGS OF THE 



be a Special Meeting, in accordance with the announcement sent 

 to every Fellow in the United Kingdom, for electing a Councillor, 

 and Secretary for Zoology, in the room of Professor George Bond 

 Howes, resigned, and stated that the Ballot would remain open 

 till 8.30 P.M. for the Councillor, and till 8.45 p.m. for the 

 Secretary. 



The Ballot for the Couucillor having been closed, the Vice- 

 President in the Chair appointed Messrs. A. G. Tansley, H. W. 

 Monckton, and V. H. Blackman, Scrutineers ; and the Votes having 

 been counted and reported to the Vice-President in the Chair, he 

 declared that the Eev. Thomas Eosgoe Eede Stebbing had been 

 elected Councillor by a large Majority. 



The Ballot for the Secretary having been closed, the Vice- 

 President in the Chair appointed the same Scrutineers, and the 

 Votes having been counted and reported to the Vice-President in 

 the Chair, he declared that the Eev. T. E. E. Stebbing had been 

 unanimously elected Secretary for Zoology. 



The following papers were read : — 



1. " On the Anatomy of the Eoots of Palms." By Eric Drabble, 

 D.Sc, P.L.S. 



2. " On Littoral Polychseta from the Cape of Good Hope." By 

 Dr. Arthur Willey, F.E.S. (Communicated by Dr. W. G. Eide- 

 wood, F.L.S.) 



3. " Notes on Myriactis Areschougii and Qoilodesme calif ornica." 

 By Miss Mary Eathbone. (Communicated by V. H. Blackman, 

 PiL.S.) 



December 17th, 1903. 



Prof. Sydney H. Vines, P.E.S., President, in the Chair. 



The Minutes of the last Meeting were read and confirmed. 



Mr. Frank Cavers was elected, and Mr. William Clitheroe, 

 Mr. Ernest Jacob Collins, and Mr. Norman Maclaren were ad- 

 mitted Fellows of the Society. 



The General Secretary exhibited a copy of a ' Lexicon generum 

 phanerogam arum,' by Tom von Post, revised and enlarged by Otto 

 Kuntze, which he had received from the author a few days before. 

 He gave a succinct account of the labours of Dr. Kuntze (from 

 the time he worked up his collections at Kew), in the matter of 

 nomenclature based solely upon priority, and set forth in this 

 volume by his colleague at Upsala. The introductory matter was 

 entirely due to Dr. Kuntze, who was also responsible for the 

 French and English versions ; besides the preface, were included 

 a ' Codex brevis maturus,' in which Dr. Kuntze postulated his 

 requirements as to names, spelling, and signs, and his ideas as to 

 the regulations for a Botanical Congress, with the class of persons 



