40 PBOCEEDINGS OF THE 



Dr. E. Dbabble, F.L.S., exhibited lantern-slides of an abnormal 

 root of Dandelion, Taraxacum officinale, Weber, which had 

 divided and afterwards reunited. A discussion ensued, in which 

 Mr. P. N. Williams, Eev. T. E. E. Stebbing, and Dr. D. H. 

 Scott took part ; and Dr. Drabble replied. 



Mr. E. Beooks Popham, P.L.S., sent for exhibition some 

 Calculi from the Horse'(see page 42). 



Mr. Thomas Cheisty remarked on the occurrence of these 

 concretions at Shanghai, and the methods employed by the Chinese 

 grooms to rid their charges of them ; Mr. P. N. Williams also 

 contributed a few remarks. 



Canon P. C. Smith, P.L.S., .sent for exhibition a handsome 

 inflorescence of a scrambling shrub from Preetown, Sierra Leone, 

 in habit resembling our native Clematis Viialba. It proved to be 

 Rhynchosia cali/cina, Guill. & Perr., which is widely spread in 

 tropical Africa, reaching Ehodesia. 



The following papers were read : — 



1. " Variations in the Arrangement of Hair in the Neck of the 

 Horse." By Dr. Walter Kidd. (Communicated by Dr. P. Gr. 

 Parsons, P.L.S.) 



2. " An Account of the Jamaican Species of Lepanihes." By 

 Mr. W. Pawcett, P.L.S., and Dr. A. B. Eendle, P.L.S. 



3. " On the Blaze-Currents of Vegetable Tissues." By Dr. 

 A. D. Waller, P.E.S. (Communicated by Prof. J. B. Parmer, 

 P.L.S.) 



4. " On some JMew and little-known British Freshwater 

 Ehizopoda." By James Cash. (Communicated by J. Hopkinson, 

 P.L.S.) 



5. "The Place of Linnaeus in the History of Botany." By 

 P. Olsson Seffer. (Communicated by B. Daydon Jackson, P.L.S.) 



