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o£ the Eoebuck found at Whatcombe, Blandford, Dorset, their 

 peculiar growth resulting from exostosis consequent upon injury 

 sustained while in the sensitive condition. 



Mr. D. Morris communicated some further notes upon the 

 Tick Pest in Jamaica, upon which an animated discussion took 

 place. 



The following papers were then read : — 



1. " On the Development of the Caoutchouc-containing Cells 

 of Eucommia ulmoides, Oliver." By Frederick Ernest Weiss, 

 F.L.S. 



2. "On the Lichens of Manipur." By Dr. Jean MUller. 

 (Communicated by W. T. Thiselton Dyer, F.R.S., F.L.S.) 



February 4th, 1892. 



Prof. Chaeles Stewaet, President, in the Chair. 



The Minutes of the last Meeting were read and confirmed. 



John Rattray, Esq., was elected a Fellow. 



The President read a letter from Q-eneral Sir Dighton Probyn, 

 conveying the thanks of the Prince and Princess of Wales for 

 the expression of condolence with their Royal Highnesses in 

 their severe bereavement which had been forwarded by him on 

 behalf of the Society. 



The vacancies on the list of Foreign Members caused by 

 the deaths of Prof. C. J. von Maximowicz, Prof. Carl G-. von 

 Nageli, Prof. Joseph Leidy, and Prof . Jean L'Armand de Quatre- 

 fages having been announced by the President, the following 

 nominations were made on the recommendation of the Council, 

 and the Certificates ordered to be suspended : — 



Dr. William Grilson Farlow, of Harvard University. 



Prof. Carl Eduard Goebel, of Munich. 



Prof. Karl Mobius, of Berlin. 



Prof. Christopher F. Liitken, of Copenhagen. 



Mr. J. E. Harting exhibited Gould's coloured plate of a Hum- 

 ming-bird (Phaethornis longuemareus), of which species a pair 

 had made their nest in the drawing-room of Mr. Hamilton, of 

 Queen's Park, Trinidad. The nest was built in a Palm about 

 5 feet high, standing in a tub within the room. The first egg 

 was laid on the 27th December last, the second on December 

 29th, and a young bird was hatched on January 12tb. The 

 circumstance was regarded as quite unprecedented, though Mr. 

 D. Morris was able to quote a case which came under his own 

 observation in Jamaica, wherein a Humming-bird had built its 

 nest on the extremity of a saddle-bar in a verandah. 



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