12 PEOCEEDIKGS OF THE 



Miss Nina Trances Layard, Mr. Frank Morey, and Mr. Arthur 

 Ernest Bousfield Steains, and later, after election, Mr, Kobert 

 Hawkes Eussell, were admitted Fellows. 



Mr. Hugh Findon, Mr. James Eustace Eadcliffe McDouagh, 

 Mr. Thomas Ha\^'kes Eussell, and Mr. Ernest Justus Schwartz 

 were severally balloted for and elected Fellows. 



Dr. D. H. Scott, F.E.S., Sec.L.S., described " A New Type of 

 Stem \^Sutcliffia~\ from the Coal-Measures." 



Prof. F. W. Oliver, Mr. W. C. Worsdell, Prof. A. G. Tansley, 

 and the President joined in a discussion, and the Author replied. 



The following papers were read and discussed : — 



1. " Notes on some Species of Nereis in the District of the 

 Thames Estuary." By Dr. H. C. Sorby, F.E.S., F.L.S. 



2. " Membranous Labyrinths of Echinorhinus and Gestracion." 

 By Prof. C. Stewart, F.E.S., F.L.S. 



March 15th, 1906. 



Prof. "W. A. Heedmai^, F.E.S., President in the Chair. 



The Minutes of the General Meeting of the 1st March were 

 read and confirmed. 



Mr. Hugh Findon, Mr. James Eustace Eadcliffe McDonagh, 

 and Mr. Ernest Justus Schwartz were admitted. 



Mr. Dhirendra Lai Day, M.A., B.Sc, and Colonel John 

 "William Terbury, late E.A., were proposed as Fellows. 



Dr. Tempest Anderson was elected a Fellow. 



A letter from Dr. Chr. Aueivillius, Secretary of the Kungi. 

 Svenska Yetenskapsakademien, Stockholm, was read, in which 

 presentation was made of copies by Jean Haagen of the portraits 

 of Carl von Linne by Per Krafft the elder, and Alexander Eoslin, 

 in possession of the Academy, sent in acknowledgment of the loan 

 of Linne's ' Philosophia Botauica ' interleaved and annotated by 

 the author, which bad been returned a few weeks ago through the 

 Swedish Legation. A special vote of thanks for this most acceptable 

 gift was moved from the Chair, and carried unanimously. 



Dr. D. H. Scott, F.E.S., Sec.L.S., read a communication from 

 Dr. E. Zeiller, F.M.L.S., conveying his good wishes for a suc- 

 cessful discussion that evening, w^hich he had been invited to open, 

 but was prevented by his professorial duties at the Ecole Nationale 

 Superieure des Mines, Paris. 



