12 PEOCEEDINGS OK TlIK 



The re])oi-t of the Donations received since tl)e last General 

 MeetiufT was laid before the FeUows, and the thanks of the Society 

 to the several Donors were ordered. 



Miss Edith Grey AVheelwright was proposed as a Fellow. 



Mr. William Bernard Crow, B.Sc.(Lond.), Mr. William Gei-ald 

 IIardint,s Mr. James Small, M.Sc.(Lon<l.), Mr. Fred Stoker, M.B., 

 li.S., F.ll.C.S.(Edin.), and Mr. Percy George Thompson, were 

 elected Fellows. 



Mr. E. S. GooDiucH, F.R.S., Sec.L.S., exhibited specimens 

 illustrating the shoulder-girdle of a Dicynodont reptile from South 

 Africa, with remarks on the Origin of the Mammalia, with 

 drawings on the blackboard. 



Mr. James Groves, F.L.S., showed a large series of photo- 

 graphs and some lantern-slides of the remains of fossil Cliaracete 

 from the Lower Headon Beds, taken by the late Clement Reid, 

 aud made some remarks as to the antiquity of the family, 

 undoubted remains of which are found as far back as the Inferior 

 Oolite. Mr. Groves also referred to organisms in earlier Forma- 

 tions, which miglit prove to be ancestral forms. 



Dr. D. H. Scott contributed some supplementary remarks on 

 these interesting fragments. 



Miss B. Muriel Bristol, M.Sc, read a paper, counnuuicated 

 by Prof. G. S. West, F.L.S., " On a Malayan Form of Ghloro- 

 coccum hamicola (Naeg.), Rabenh.," with lantern-slides from her 

 two plates. 



Dr. D. H. Scott commented on the interest of this alga being 

 derived from the soil dried for years, and being capable of renewing 

 its vital functions after so long a period of rest. He alluded to a 

 recent flooding above the source of the River Test of certain 

 areas in Hampshire, which had not been under water for about 

 30 years, and yet in the jiools which remained after the flood 

 abundant algal growth was present. 



Mr. Paulson put certain questions to the Author, who replied, and 

 said that she had found about 60 species of algse which gre«' in soil. 



Other mor])hological characters of Botri/tis cintrea — rapidity of 

 growth, minute details of physiology of pai'asitism, septation and 

 branching of conidiophore, structure of sclerotia, etc. — are being 

 investigated, and are yielding results of a similar nature, and it 

 ap|)ears not improbable that the present species in the Pohjactis 

 group of the genus must be regarded as host forms of elementary 

 species of Botri/tis cinerea. 



" Modal variation " is not due to physiological starvation or 

 repletion or other known nutritional conditions resulting from 

 various substrata. It is suggested tliat it may be due to some 

 growth-stimulant or accessory food-factor, A\hich is constantly 

 present to a different degree in different food-substrata. 



