8 PROCKEDINGS OF THE 



March 16th, 1893. 



Prof. Chaeles Stewaet, President, in the Chair. 



The Minutes of the last Meeting were read and confirmed. 



Mr. Eichard Thomas Baker, the Eev. John Bufton, Mr. John 

 Taylor, and Mr. William Henry Wilkinson, were elected Fellows, 

 and Mr. Thomas Moore was elected an Associate. 



A curious freshwater Alga growing in a perfectly spherical 

 mass without any visible point of attachment, and described as an 

 fegagrophilous condition of CladopJiora, was exhibited by Mr. A. 

 W. Bennett, who stated that specimens had been found in English 

 and Welsh lakes as well as in Sweden, and that the peculiar form 

 of growth was difficult to explain. Mr. Gr. E. Murray suggested 

 that it might be due to the action of a current which would cause 

 a continuous revolution of the mass. 



Mr, E. I. Pocock exhibited a nest, so called, of a Myriapod 

 received from Sierra Leone, and formed of a clayey earth which 

 had become hardened by exposure. It was suggested that it was 

 not a nest formed by the creature itself, but rather a case 

 fashioned by Ants for the purpose of entombing their enemy. 



The following papers were read : — 



1. "Botanical Eesults of the Sierra Leone Boundary Com- 

 mission." By &. E. Scott Elliot, E.L.S. 



2. " Contributions to the Arthropod Eauna of the West Indies." 

 By E. Innes Pocock. (Communicated by the President.) 



3. " Some Points in the Anatomy of Melongena melongena.''' 

 By J. H. Vanstone. (Communicated by Prof. George Bond 

 Howes, E.L.S.) 



April 6th, 1893. 



Prof Chaeles Stewaet, President, in the Chair. 



The Minutes of the last Meeting were read and confirmed. 



Messrs. Erederick Harry Baker and Eichard Spiers Standen 

 were elected Eellows. 



The President took occasion to refer to the great loss which 

 Botanical Science had sustained by the death, on April 4th, of 

 Prof. Alphonse de Candolle of Geneva, an announcement which 

 was received with profound regret. M. de Candolle was the 

 Senior Eoreign Member of the Society, having been elected in 

 Mav 1850, and was the recipient of the Society's Gold Medal in 

 1889. 



