LINTJ"EA]!T SOCIETY OP LONDON. 1 5 



The report of the Donations received since the last General 

 Meeting was laid before the Fellows, and the thanks of the Society 

 to the several Donors were ordered. 



Mr. John Laurence Pitchford Hollingvvorth was admitted a 

 Fellow. 



Mr. William Wright Smith was proposed as a Fellow, and Mr. 

 Walter Watson, B.Sc.(Lond.), as an Associate. 



Miss Edith G-rey Wheelwright was elected a Fellow. 



A paper by Mr. Geokoe M. Thomson, F.L.S., entitled " On a 

 new Fresh-water Shrimp (CaricUna) from Fiji," was I'ead in title 

 by tlie Zoological Secretary. 



Dr. Mabie Stopes, F.L.S., gave the substance of her paper, 

 " Bennetiites Scottii, sp. nov., a European Petrifaction with 

 foliage." 



A discussion followed, in which Dr. D. H. Scott, Miss 

 Madeline Carson, and Prof. Margaret J. Benson took part, the 

 Author replying. 



Dr. Stopes also gave an account of her work, entitled " A 

 Survey of the biological aspect of the constitution of Coal," which 

 was explained and illustrated with lantern-slides. The history of 

 the complicated substance known as Coal was narrated, from its 

 earliest microscopical investigation in 1833 by H. T. M. Whifham, 

 and shortly afterwards by William Hutton (1798-1860). Four 

 special substances were particularized as building up coal, and 

 some concluding remarks were devoted to the ecological aspect of 

 coal in its formation in geological times. 



Dr. D. H. Scott and Dr. A. Smith Woodward contributed addi- 

 tional remarks, and the Author replied. 



May 24lh, 1918. 

 Ann iversary Meeting. 



Sir Datid Pbaix, C.M.G., C.I.E., F.R.S., President, 

 in the Chair. 



The Minutes of the General Meeting of the :2nd JNIay, 1918, 

 were read and confirmed. 



The report of the Donations received since the last General 

 Meeting was laid b;'fore the Fellows, and the thanks of the Society 

 to the several Donors were ordered. 



Dr. John McEwen Dalziel, Mr. Fred Stoker, M.B., Mr. Percy 

 George Thompson, Mr. Walter Eeginald Brook Oliver, Mr. George 

 Claridge Druce, and Mr. Ernest Gibson, were admitted i'ellows. 



