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structure of such an early and primitive form as Osteolejiis, from 

 tlie Lower Devonian .strata, for a correct interpretation of the 

 homologies of the cranial bones in the higher Irishes and in the 

 Land Vertebrates. 



Mr. Goodrich tlien exiiibited a beautifully preserved femur of 

 the flying Pterodactyl lihamphorJii/nchus backlmidi, obtained by 

 him frou) the Stonesfield State (Lower Jurassic) quarries near 

 Blenheim. 



Mr. James Britten then read his paper, " Some early Cape 

 Botanists," based upon the material preserved in the Sloanean 

 and Banksian collections at the British Museum (Natural History). 

 He traced them from the plants collected by Paul Hermann 

 (1(340-95), Oldenland, Oldenburg, Thunberg, Masson, Banks and 

 Solander, and Eobert Brown, when he touched at the Cape in 

 H.M.S. ' Investigator,' under Capt. M. Flinders, in 1802. 



The portrait of Francis Masson (1741-1805), pi'esented by Dr. 

 W. Carruthers, F.R.S., in 1887, was shown ; it is interesting as 

 displaying in the background a view of Table Bay looking due 

 south, with the Devil's Peak, Table Mountain, and Signal Hill 

 shown. 



Dr. Stapf opened the discussion; the Greneral Secretary followed, 

 remarking upon the interest of the author's mention of Simon van 

 der Stel, whose name is inseparably connected with the colony's 

 history in such names as Simon's Bay and Stellenbosch. He 

 mentioned the collection of plants sent by Governor C. Eijk 

 Tulbagh in 1769, and his own hope of completing an account of 

 that collection for early publication. (See Supplement.) The 

 President closed the discussion with a review of the interest of 

 those early records, so well brought out by the author. 



The last communication was by Mr. C. E. Salmon, F.L.S., on a 

 Hybrid Stachys, which origiTiated in his garden, where previously 

 only Stachys germanica and *S'. alpina were cultivated ; he compared 

 the chai'acters of all three plants, and pointed out that the hybrid 

 was identical with S. intermedia [Solander in] Ait. Hort. Kew. ii. 

 301 (1789). 



Mr. F. N. Williams, Mr. E. G. Baker, Dr. A. P. Touug, and 

 the President contributed further remarks, Mr. Salmon replying. 



February 7th, 1918. 



Sir Datib Prain, C.M.G., CLE., F.E.S., President, 

 in the Chair. 



The Minutes of the General Meeting of the 17th January, 1918, 

 were read and confirmed. 



