LIKNEAN SOCIETY OP LOITOON. 53 



April 21st, 1892. 



Prof. Chaeles Stewaet, President, in the Chair. 



The Minutes of the last Meeting were read and confirmed. 



Mr. Henry Groves was elected a Fellow. 



The President announced that the following Auditors to 

 examine the Treasurer's Accounts had been nominated by the 

 Council, and by show of hands these were unanimously elected : — 



-r> ^7 /-, -7 f Dr. John "W. S. Meikleiohn. 

 For the Council \ ^^^^ j^^^ ^.^.^^ ^^^^^^^^^ 



V xi -n^ n f Mr. Charles James Breese. 

 For the FeUoios ^j-^_ ^^^^^ j)_ ^-^^^^^^ 



An example of an Australian bird {Gymnorhina) was exhibited 

 on behalf of Mr. TV. Else, Curator of the Torquay Museum. It 

 had been lately shot near Tor Abbey, Devonshire, after having 

 been observed all the winter, and had doubtless escaped from 

 confinement. 



On behalf of Mr. Charles Head of Scarborough, two specimens 

 of the Whiskered Bat {Vespertilio mystacinus) taken in that 

 neighbourhood were exhibited. 



The following papers were read : — 



1. " On a Botanical Collection made by Mr. A. E. Pratt in 

 Western China." By W. Botting Hemsley, E.E.S., A.L.S. 



2. " On the Relation of the Acarida to the Arachnida." By 

 H. M. Bernard. (Communicated by A. D. Michael, F.L.S.) 



A Circular from the Italian Botanical Society, inviting botanists 

 to be present at the forthcoming Botanical International Con- 

 gress to be held at Genoa in September next, was laid before the 

 Pellows. 



May 5th, 1892. 



Prof. Chaeles Stewaet, President, in the Chair. 



The Minutes of the last Meeting were read and confirmed. 



Messrs. Charles Arthur Barber, Frederick Enock, and Henry 

 Power were elected Fellows ; and Prof. WiUiam Gibson Farlow, 

 Prof. Carl Eduard Goebel, Prof. Karl Mobius, and Prof. Christian 

 F. LUtken were elected Foreign Members. 



On behalf of Mr. Holt, Prof. G. B. Howes exhibited and made 

 remarks on a very interesting collection of the metamorphosing 

 larvae of flatfish. 



