1 6 PROCEEDINGS OF THE 



March 29th, 1917. 



Sir David Praix, C.M.G., F.E.S., President, in the Chair. 



The Minutes of the General Meeting of the 15th March, 1917,. 

 were read and confirmed. 



Mr. Sydney Frederick Armstrong was admitted a Fellow. 



Mr. Arthur John Fry Gibbons was proposed as a Fellow. 



Dr. John McEwen Dalziel was elected a Fellow. 



The President announced a vacancy in the number of Associates 

 due to the death of George Edward Massee. 



'Sir. SV. Batesok, F.R.S., F.L.S., delivered a lecture entitled 

 " Prof. T. H. Morgan's AVork on the Mechanism of Heredity," 

 and summarised the results of recent work in America by 

 Prof. Morgan and his fellow-workers on the cytology of the 

 question, especially upon the fly Drosophila. The lecture was 

 illustrated bv diagi'ams and manv lanteiMi-slides. 



Mr. E. S. "Goodrich, F.E.S., Sec.L.S., and Mr. Arthur W.Sutton, 

 F.L.S., spoke of the great interest of the lecture, and respectively 

 moved and seconded the thanks of the Society to the lecturer, 

 which, on being put by the President, was carried by acclamation. 



April 19th, 1917. 



Sir David Praix, C.M.G., F.E.S., President, in the Chair. 



The Minutes of the General Meeting of the 29th March, 1917, 

 were read and confirmed. 



Mr. Harold Downes, M.B., Ch.M.(Edin.), and Mr. James 

 Udale were proposed as Fellows, and Mr. Albert Bruce Jackson 

 as an Associate. 



The following were nominated as Auditors for the Treasui'er's 

 Accounts to the 30th April, and were elected by show of hands: — 



For the Council : Mr. James Groves and Mr. G.AV. E. Loder. 

 For the Fellows : Mr. Joun Hopkixson and Lt.-Col. Walsh. 



Dr. D. H. Scott, F.K.S., F.L.S., read his paper, "The Heter- 

 angiums of the Britisli Coal-Measures," illustrating it by lantern- 

 slides. 



Dr. Marie Stopes interrogated Dr. Scott on certain points, to 

 whom he replied. 



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