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Member in Class III., Section 1, in place of the late Charles 

 Russell, Baron Russell of Killowen. 



Henry Jackson, of Cambridge, as Foreign Honorary Member 

 in Class HI., Section 2 (Philology and Archaeology), in place 

 of the late Henry Sidgwick. 



Edmondo de Amicis, of Florence, as Foreign Honorary Mem- 

 ber in Class HI., Section 4 (Literature and the Fine Arts), in 

 place of the late John Ruskin. 



On the motion of the Corresponding Secretary, it was 



Voted, To meet, on adjournment, on the 10th of April next. 



B. L. Robinson gave an account of " Recent Advances in the 

 General Classification of the Flowering Plants." 



R. T. Jackson spoke on " Resorption as a Factor in Growth." 



The following papers were presented by title : — 



The Occlusion of Magnesic Oxalate by Calcic Oxalate, and 

 the Solubility of Calcic Oxalate. By Theodore W. Richards, 

 Charles F. McCaffrey, and Harold Bisbee. 



Contributions from the Cryptogamic Laborator}^ of Harvard 

 University, XLVI. Preliminary Diagnoses of New Species of 

 Laboulbeniaceae, IH. By Roland Thaxter. 



The Development and Function of Reissner's Fibre and its 

 Cellular Connections. By Porter E. Sargent. Presented by E. 

 L. Mark. 



The Solubility of Manganous Sulphate. By Theodore W. 

 Richards and F. R. Fraprie. 



Contributions from the Gray Herbarium of Harvard Uni- 

 versity. New Series, No. XX. I. Synopsis of the genus 

 Melampodium. II. Synopsis of the genus Nocca. HI. New 

 Species and Newly Noted Synonymy among the Spermato- 

 phytes of Mexico and Central America. By B. L. Robinson. 



Contributions from the Gray Herbarium of Harvard Univer- 

 sity. New Series, No, XXI. By M. L. Fernald. Some New 

 Sperraatophytes from Mexico and Central America. 



