lO PROCEEDINGS OF THE 



later meeting ; this being seconded by Mr. James Groves, led to 

 a prolonged discussion, in which Mr. A. O. Hume, Mr. Henry 

 Groves, Dr. A. tSmith Woodward, Eev. T. R. K. Stebbing, 

 Mr. G. S. Boulger, Mr. F. Crisp, Mr. Thomas Christy, Mr. E. 

 M. Holmes, Dr. D. H. Scott, Mr. Gilbert Christy, and Mr. J. 

 Britten, joined. By consent, the votiing by show of hands was 

 taken to be for or against confirmation of the Minutes ; those in 

 favour of confirmation 14, against 17 (one more being invalid), 

 out of 47 JFellows present. The Minutes were accordingly not 

 signed. 



Dr. John Don Fisher Gilchrist, Mr. William Philip James 

 Le Brocq, and Mr. Charles Edward Pearson were elected, and the 

 Rev. Henry Thomas Spufford and Mr. John Lewis Bonhote were 

 admitted Fellows of the Society. 



The President, on behalf of Prof. Isaac Batley Baleoue, 

 presented a Gold Medal recently struck in commemoration of his 

 father. Prof. John Hutton Balfour ; a special vote of thanks was 

 accorded by acclamation. 



Sir Joseph Hookek forwarded for acceptance by the Society a 

 photograph of an etching by Mrs. Dawson Turner, from a drawing 

 by J. S. Cotman, of her husband, who was a Fellow of the Linnean 

 Society for fifty years (from 1797 to 1858). For this gift a special 

 vote of thanks was passed. 



Mr. E. P. Stebbing exhibited lantern-slides of the metamorphoses 

 of Clania Crameri, a Psychid moth from the Madras Presidency, 

 showing its use of its food-plant, Casuarina eq^uisetifolia, in the 

 making of its protective case. 



Mr, F. Enock displayed a series of more than fifty slides of 

 Natural Colour Photography of living insects and flowers by the 

 Sanger-Shepherd three-colour process ; the President adding a few 

 remarks on the results. 



The following paper was read : — 



"The Morphology and Anatomy of the Stem of the Genus 

 LycojJodium." By Charles Edward Jones, F.L.S. 



April 21st, 1904. 

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



The Minutes of the last Meeting were read and confirmed. 

 The Pbesidenx then referred to the fact that the Minutes of the 

 Meeting on March 17 had not been approved at the Meeting on 



