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Chap. VIII. Sect. 3. 



That "half-past three" and "four" be substituted for 

 " four " aad " half-past four," as the time for closing the 

 ballots for Couucil and Officers respectively. 



Chap. YIII. Sect. 5. 



To be rescinded, and the following substituted : — 



V. Each Fellow voting shall place his balloting list or lists 

 in the respective glasses. 



Mr. Thomas Christy exhibited a number of food-nuts utilized 

 by the natives of ISorth Queensland, the species of which had 

 not been determined, since neither flowers nor foliage of the 

 trees producing them had been obtained. 



On behalf of Mr. Arthur Eoope Hunt, the Secretary exhi- 

 bited a curiosity in the shape of an orange within an orange, and 

 remarked that a similar abnormality had been described and 

 figured by Dr. Perrier (Bull. Soc. Linn. Normand. ix. tab. 2). 



The following papers were read : — 



1. "The Dillenian Herbarium at Oxford." By Greorge 

 Claridge Druce, F.L.S. 



2. " On a Self-fertilizing Hermaphrodite Trout." By Charles 

 Stewart, Pres. Linn. Soc. 



3. " Some points in the Life-historv and E-ate of G-rowth 

 of Tew Trees." By Dr. John Lowe, F.L.S. 



March .jth, 1891. 



Prof. Charles Stewart, President, in the Chair. 



The Minutes of the last Meeting were read and confirmed. 



Thomas Butler Cato, Esq., and the Eev. Edgar Norman 

 Langham were elected Fellows. 



The alterations in the Bye-Laws proposed by the Couucil to 

 be submitted to the Fellows at the next Meeting on March 19cli 

 were read the second time from the Chair. 



Mr. D. Morris exhibited a dwarf species of Thrinax, which he 

 found growing plentifully in the Island of Anguilla "West 

 Indies, and was apparently undescribed. 



Mr. Thomas Christy exhibited the fruit of some undetermiued 

 species of tree which had been introduced into commerce by the 

 name of Monchona, but the origin of which had not been 

 ascertained. 



