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The Treasurer then read tlie section in question, pointing out 

 that it was thei-ein declared that only the Second, Third, and Fourth 

 Sections of Chapter I. applied to the election of Associates, and 

 the Fifth Section, requiring a two-thirds majority, was expressly 

 excluded. 



The Rev. R. Ashington Bullen exhibited (1) the egg-capsule 

 of a Mantis found on a twig of wild Olive, while others occurred in 

 immense numbei's on blackberry and various shrubs at Brenes, 

 near Carmona, Spain, February 16th, 1904. Mr. W. F. Kirby 

 refers it to Mantis religiosa, Linn. ; it is figured in Brunner von 

 Wattenwyl's 'Prodromus der Europaischen Orthopteren,' pi. 2. 

 figs. 14 (A, female ; B, egg-capsule ; C, section of B), This author, 

 however, states that the species which he describes deposit their 

 capsules on stones ; so far as we observed, however, none were in 

 that position, but were placed on shrubs and bushes at the edge 

 of a precipice (barranca). The capsules obtaiued as above are less 

 elongated and more turgid than in the figures cited. Mr. W. L. 

 Distant is of opinion that the capsules vary in shape ; the number 

 of eggs contained is about 30. 



(2) A photograph of a cat playing with a snake before killing it, 

 and calling to her kittens in a loud and peculiar way to come and 

 share in the sport ; it was snapped by Mr. George Bonsor in 1903, 

 in the jjrtito of his house in the Necropolis Eomana, Carmoua. 



Mr. A. O. Walker brought a branch of Black Currant from 

 his garden near Maidstone, with the swollen buds indicative of the 

 destructive mite Erioj/hi/es rihis. A discussion followed, in which 

 the Chairman, Mr. A. D. Michael, Mr. N. E. Brown, and Mr. E. M. 

 Holmes took part, Mr. Walker replying. 



The General Secretary, Mr. B. Daydon Jackson, then gave an 

 exhibition and lantern demonstration of " Botanic Illustration from 

 the 15th to the 20th Centuries," tracing its development from the 

 earliest herbals to the present time, with an account of the various 

 methods employed. 



The following paper was read : — 



" On Bryozoa from Franz-Josef Land." By Arthur William 

 Waters, F.L.S. 



April 7th, 1904. 

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



The Minutes of the General Meeting of 17th March having been 

 read, their confirmation was opposed by Mr. George it. M. 

 Murray, on a point of order, that inasmuch as the election of 

 Mr. William Watson as an Associate was not declared at the 

 meeting of the 18th February, it could not be so declared at a 



