5^ i^BOCEEDINGS OF THE 



been described in this genus. The species differs from those 

 already known in bearing the organs of reproduction on the 

 surface of the frond instead of on the margin. 



Mr. Buxton Shillitoe exhibited and made some remarks upon 

 the flowers of Leucojum vernum and Selleborus viridis, both 

 gathered near Lyme Eegis. 



The following papers were read : — 



1. " On the Eesisting Vitality of the Spores of Bacillus Mega- 

 terium to the condition of Dryness." By Allan Peter Swan, F.L.S. 



2. " Notes on the Zebras." By S. B. Carlill. (Communicated 

 by W. Percy Sladen, Sec.L.S.) 



April 7th, 1892. 



Prof. Chaeles Siewaet, President, in the Chair. 



The Minutes of the last Meeting were read and confirmed. 



Mr. Spencer Moore exhibited and made remarks upon some 

 samples of Mate or Paraguayan Tea recently brought by him 

 from South America. 



Mr. J. Tristram- Valentine exhibited a skin of G-revy's Zebra, 

 recently brought from Somali-land by Mr. H. D. Merewether, 

 who had lately purchased it from a caravan arriving from the 

 southern Dalbahanta country to the S.E. of Berbera. Although 

 it corresponded in character and disposition of the stripes with 

 the type specimen from Shoa, and with a skin in the British 

 Museum from Berbera (Proc. Zool. Soc. 1890, p. 413), it differed 

 in the stripes being brown upon a pale sandy or rufescent 

 ground, instead of black upon a white ground. It was suggested 

 that this might be the desert form, the type specimen repre- 

 senting the mountain form. 



Mr. Tristram- Valentine also exhibited horns of Swayne's Har- 

 tebeest and Clarke's Antelope (both recently described species), 

 which, like the Zebra-skin, had been recently brought from 

 Somali-land by Mr. Merewether. 



Mr, "W. S. D'Urban exhibited specimens of the Shell Slug 

 {Testacella Maugei) from Devonshire. 



The following papers were read : — 



1. " On the Phenomena concerned in the Production of Forked 

 and Branched Palms." By D. Morris, F.L.S. 



2. " On Grland-like Bodies in the Bryozoa." By A. "W. Waters, 

 F.L.S. 



