O PROCEEDINGS OF THE 



habitat, or colouring, collected by Dr. Gilchrist, F.L.S. (South 

 Africa), W. E. Forrest, Esq. (\Yest Indies), Dr. Cliarles Hose, D.Sc. 

 (Borneo), C. J. (Saunders, Esq. (Singapore), P. W. Bassett-Smith, 

 Esq., E.N. (Diego Garcia), W. Boyd, Esq., F.E.S.E., W. Bruce, 

 Esq., E. Mello Saunders, Esq. (Xorthern and Arctic localities), and 

 G. Eddison, Esq. (Nottinghamshire). 



The specimens shown included many representative crabs, 

 delicate or massive, some with tall sponges growing on their backs, 

 some equipped for vigorous motion; a '•calling-crab" with one 

 arm abnormally large ; an old truculent-looking land-crab ; a new 

 stone-crab from the South Atlantic; a AVest Indian " hermit" of 

 exceptional size ; a " mother-lobster '' with its gastric apparatus 

 inverted ; several craAv-fishes ; the little red Cape lobster ; cray- 

 fishes ; a new African river-prawn of a beautiful blue colour ; the 

 gigantic South American prawn, Palcemon jamaicensis ; Squillidae, 

 Isopods, and Amphipods, with a thread-like Oaprellid from 

 Kerguelen among them. The series was intended to illustrate the 

 wonderful diversity of forms developed in the Malacostraca, all 

 traceable by modifications easily intelligible to a very simple 

 original. 



Various crustacean parasites of northern and southern whales 

 were also exhibited, and a curious mimetic parasite from the sun-tish. 



Lastly, Mr. Stebbing made an appeal for information in regard 

 to the distribution of the river (3rayfish in the Midland and 

 Northern counties of England. 



A discussion followed, in which the Eev. J. Gerai'd, S.J., 

 Mr. H. J. Elwes, the Treasurer, the President, and Mr. V. I. 

 Chamberlain took part, the Eev. T. E. E. Stebbing i*eplying. 



Dr. Augustine Henrt then gave a discourse on " Botanical 

 Collecting," to which Prof. S. H. Vines, Mr. H. J. Elwes, and 

 Dr. Tempest Anderson (a visitor) couti'ibuted some remarks. 

 (See Abstract, p. 62.) 



The follovi-ing paper was read : — 



" On the Cranial Osteology of the Families Osteoglossidae, 

 Pantodontidse, and Phractolsemidae." By Dr. W. G. Eidewood, 

 F.L.S. 



February 2nd, 1905. 



Prof. W. A. Hebdmaf, F.E.S., President, in the Chaii*. 



The Minutes of the General Meeting of the 19th January were 

 read and confirmed. 



Mr. Eardley Wilmot Blomfield Holt, Miss Emilia Frances Noel, 

 Miss Alice Laura Embleton, Mr. William James Tutcher, and 

 Mr. Stafford Edwin Chandler were admitted Fellows. 



