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Her Grace Mary du Caurroy Russell, Duchess of Bedford, 

 Miss Margaret Benson, D.Sc.Lond., Mr. Stafford Edwiu Chandler, 

 B.Sc, Mrs. Catherine Crisp, Miss Alice Laura Einbleton, B.8c., 

 Mrs. Grace Coleridire Frankland, F.E.M.S., Mrs. Maria Matilda 

 Ogilvie Gordon, Ph.D. Munich, D.8c. Lond., Miss Gulielma Lister, 

 Miss Ethel Sargant, Mr. Arthur Everett Shipley, M.A.,F.R.S., Miss 

 Sarah Marianne Silver, Mrs. Constance Percy Sladen, Miss Annie 

 Lorrain Smith, Mrs. Mary Anne Stebbing, Miss Emma Louisa 

 Turner, Mr. AVilliara James Tutcher, Mrs. Lilian Jane Veley, and 

 Miss Ellen Ann Willmott, were severally balloted for and elected. 



Mr. W. G. Freeman, F.L.S., exhibited the fresh fruit of 

 Sechnim edule, Sw., from the West Indies, and remarked upon its 

 precocious germination. Mr. H. J. Elwes and Mr. C. B. Clarke 

 contributed some further remarks. 



Mr. Thomas Christy, F.L.S., brought two samples for exhibi- 

 tion of the so-called "Root" or " Grass"' rubber from the French 

 Congo, believed to be derived from Landolpliia r^oWojm, Dewevre; 

 Mr. E. M. Holmes added a few observations. 



The following papers were read : — 



1. " On the (Ecology of Woodland Plants in the Neighbourhood 

 of Huddersheld." By Thomas W. Woodhead, F.L.S. 



2. " Experimental Studies on Heredity in Rabbits." By Charles 

 Chamberlain Hurst, F.L.S. 



January 19th, 1905. 



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



The Minutes of the General Meeting of the 15th December 

 were read and confirmed. 



Mrs. Catherine Crisp, Mrs. Constance Percy Sladen, Miss Ellen 

 Ann Willmott, Miss Emma Louisa Turner, Mrs. Mary Anne 

 Stebbing, Miss Sarah Marianne Silver, Mrs. Lilian Jane Veley, 

 Miss Margaret Benson, Miss Annie Lorrain Smith, Miss Gulielma 

 Lister, and Miss Ethel Sargant were admitted Fellows. 



Mr. Thomas Vere Hodgson and Miss Viola Annette Latham, 

 M.D., were proposed as Fellows. 



Mr. Eardley Wilmot Blomfield Holt and Miss Emilia J^^rances 

 Noel w^ere elected Fellows. 



The Rev. T. R. R. Stebbing exhibited and explained specimens 

 of Crustacea, in various ways remarkable for structure, habits, 



