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OF THE 



LTMEAN SOCIETY OF LONDON. 



(SESSION 1892-93.) 



November 3rd, 1892. 



Prof. Charles Stewart, President, in the Chair. 



The Minutes of the last Meeting were read and confirmed. 



The President read a letter from the Committee appointed to 

 promote the erection of a monument to the memory of the late 

 M. de Quatrefages, soliciting contributions in furtherance of 

 their object. 



The Eev. Prof. Henslow exhibited an instrument used in Egypt 

 for removing the end of the Sycamore Fig, and gave some account 

 of the mode of cultivation. 



Mr. A. Smith "Woodward exhibited and made remarks on some 

 supposed fossil Lampreys {Pseudospondylus Gunni) from the Old 

 Eed Sandstone of Caithness. 



The Eev. E. S. Marshall exhibited some hybrid Willows from 

 Central Scotland believed to be rare or new to Britain. 



Mr. G. N. Douglass exhibited the train of a Pea-hen which 

 had assumed the male plumage. The bird, which was reared at 

 the Castle Farm, Tilquhillie, near Banchory, N.B., was believed 

 to be about 30 years old at the time of its death, and for some 

 years previously had not laid any eggs. In the opinion of the 

 exhibitor and others present, the phenomenon was correlated 

 with disease of the ovaries. Similar cases had occurred with 

 fowls, pheasants, and black grouse, but very rarely with Pea- 

 fowl. 



Mr. C. T. Druery exhibited some new examples of apospory in 



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