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Society, which he subsequently^ seut to the Society, and was now on 

 the table. 



It was impossible to guess bow the seal had left the custody of 

 the Society to be afterwards found in possession of an " illiterate " 

 man ; tbe only entry in the Minutes was in March 1789, '' Ordered, 

 that the seal exhibited be engraved." The seal itself was in use 

 until the granting of the Patent of Arms in 1802, for we find an 

 Order in January 1803 for the immediate engraving of tbe pres«nt 

 seal, " with tlie arms of tbe Society." The exhibitor put forward a 

 possible ex[)]anati()n as to why the original seal was suilered to 

 leave tbe custody of tbe Society, to wliicb it bad now been 

 returned after more than a century's absence. 



A vote of thanks to Mr. Slade was then accorded. 



June 19tb, 1919. 



Dr. A. Smith Woodward, ]^Mi.S., President, 

 in the Chair. 



Tlie Minutes of the General Meeting of the 5th June, 1919, 

 were read and confirmed. 



The report of the Donations received since the last Meeting 

 was laid before the Fellows, and the thanks of the Society to tlie 

 several Donors were ordered. 



Mr. Frederick Ormrod Mosley and Dr. Sidney Frederic 

 Harmer, F.R..S., were admitted Fellows. 



Certificates in favour of the following were read and ordered 

 to be suspended: — Miss Vera Adelaide Irwin-Smitb, B.Sc, James 

 Kobert Mattliews, and Miss Beatrice Buckland Taylor. 



Prof. Vernon Herbert Bhickman, F.E.S., Dr. William Thomas 

 Caiman, liobert Swainson-Hall, Cyril Tenison White, Edwin 

 Ashby, and Dr. lioberfc Colquhoun McLean, were elected Fellov\s. 



The first paper was by Mr. T. A. Dymes, F.L.S., entitled 

 "Notes on the Life-history of the Yellow Flag (/r/s I'seuUdcorns, 

 Linn.), with special reference to the seeds and seedlings during 

 their first year." 



Lt.-Col. J.H.Tull Walsh and Dr. E. J. Salisbury added further 

 observations, and the Author briefly replied. 



Dr. G. II. RouMAN showed the egg-case of a spider, Ci/rtarachne 

 tuberculifera, from Cannes, and explained its structure by lantern- 

 slides. It had been identified by Mr. Eugene Simon ; hitherto 

 unknown, it corresponds to those of tropical species of tbe same 

 genus. (See Abstract on p. 78.) 



