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Tlio President announced that lie had appointed the following 

 to he Vice-Presidents during the following year, namely, 

 Dr. AViLLiAM Bateson, P.ll.fS., Mr. Hokace W. Moncktox, 

 Mr. R. I. PococK, E.K.S., and Dr. Harold Wagek, F.E.S. 



Mr. Alfred William Sheppard, Miss Mary Kehekah Norris 

 Holmer, M.A., j\liss Theodora Lisle Prankerd, B.Sc, Mr. Edgar 

 Beckett, Dr. Sidney Erederic JIarmer, M.A., E.B.S., and Miss 

 Florence Annie Mockeridge, D.Hc, were elected Eellows. 



Mr. H. X. Djxox, M.A., E.L.S., then gave an abstract of his 

 paper on " Mosses from Decejjtion Island." 



The second paper " On the structure and oceurience of Max- 

 illuloe in the Orders of Insects " was by Miss Alwkx M. Evans, 

 M.Sc, and communicated by Dr. A. D. Imras, E.L.JS. In the 

 absence of the Author, the Zoological Secretary gave a sunnnary 

 of the piiper. 



The President commented upon the paper and Dr. Young put 

 a question, which was answered by Mr. Goodrich, E.K.S., 

 Sec.L.S. 



The third communication was by Mr. Ernest E. Uxwin, M.Sc, 

 " Notes upon the E-eproduction of Asellus aquaticus" anil 

 communicated by the Rev. T. R. R. Stebbing, M.A., E.R.S., 

 E.L.S. ; it was read in abstract by the General Secretary. 



The General Secretary called attention to the illustrations, 

 which were admirably drawn, and adapted for reproduction as 

 they stood ; it was a rare event to be able to praise the illustrations 

 accompanying a paper with such entire approbation. 



The General Secretary then exhibited a medallion portrait in 

 bronze of Carl von Linne, hitherto unknown, and wanting in 

 Professor T. Tullberg's " Linneportratr,"' the comprehensive 

 catalogue of Linnean portraits. The base of the head showed the 

 name ' G. Wallis.' George "Wallis (1811 -91) was an art-teacher 

 in Manchester, London, and Birmingham, and became Keeper of 

 the Art Collections, South Kensington, in LS58, which he retained 

 till the year before his death. Like nearly all plastic representa- 

 tions of Linnc, it was made from j)ortraits, as the ])eriod of the 

 artist deelares. The medallion has been kindly lent for exhibition 

 by Mr. W. J. Wintle, Secretary of the Malacological Society. 



Dr. Rendle, E.R.S., Sec.L.S., contributed a few remarks upon 

 the portrait. 



A second exhibition by the General Secretary was that of the 

 original seal of the Society, which had been lost sight oF since 

 the beginning of the last century. A month previously he 

 received a letter from JMr. John Slade, of Worthing, stating that 

 on winding up the estate of an old gentleman of more than 

 SO vears of age, he found in a deed-box the original seal of the 



