LINNEi-ir SOCIETY OF LONDON. 



2. " SomP Notes on the ' Sudd ' Formation of the Upper Nile." 

 By A. F. Broun. (Communicated by C. II. Wright, A.L.S.) 



3. " On Brvozoa from near Cape Horn." Bv A. W. AVaters, 

 F.L.S. 



Noyember 17th, 1904. 



Prof. "W. A. Hehdman, F.R.S., President, in the Chair. 



The Minutes of the General Meeting of the 3rd November wera 

 read and confirmed. 



Mr. John Edmund Sliorec Moore, and Mr. Henry Deane of 

 Sydney, New South Wales, were admitted Fellows. 



IJer Grace Mary du Caurroy Kussell, Duchess of Bedford, Miss 

 Margaret Benson, D.Sc. Lond., Mr. Stafford Edwin Chandler, 

 B.vSc, Mrs. Catherine Crisp, Miss Alice Laura Embleton, B.Sc, 

 Mrs. Alarian Sarah Ogilvie Farquharson, F.E.M.S., of Haughtou, 

 Mrs. Grace Coleridge Franklaud, F.E.M.S., Mrs. Maria Matilda 

 Ogilvie Gordon, Ph.D. Munich, D.Sc. Lond., Miss Gulielma 

 Lister, Miss Ethel Sargant, Mr. Arthur Everett Shipley, M.A., 

 F. U.S., Miss Sarah Marianne Silver, Mrs. Constance Percy Sladen, 

 Miss Annie Lorrain Smith, Mrs. Mary Anne Stebbing, Miss 

 Emma Louisa Turner, Mr. William James Tutcher, Mrs. Lilian 

 Jane Veley, and Miss Ellen Ann Willmott, were proposed as 

 Fellows. 



Mr. H. E. H. Smedley, F.L.S. , F.G.S., exhibited forty-one 

 Models of Palaeozoic Seeds and Cones, including those of the 

 following : — Palceostachya, Calamostachys, Cingularia, Cheiro- 

 strobus, Sigillariostrohus, Spencerites, Bennettites, Lagenostoma, and 

 others. The models of the seeds show the complexity of their 

 interual structure, whilst those of the synthetically re-constructed 

 Calamitean and other cones display the high organization of the 

 vascular Cryptogams of Palaeozoic times. 



A discussion followed in which Dr. D. H. Scott, Professor J. B. 

 Farmer, and the President took part. 



The following papers were read : — 



1. "Note on the Shape of the Stems of Plants." By the 

 Et. Hon. Lord Avebary, F.E.S., F.L.S. 



2. " Observations on some uudescribed or little-known Species 

 of Hemiptera-Homoptera of the Family Membracidae." By 

 G. Bowdlei- Buckton, F.R.S., F.L.S. 



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