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sented by the Washington State Commission, Alaska-Yukon- 

 Pacific Exposition; "Geologic Atlas of the United States" 

 Folios Nos. ig5-ig8 (fol. .Washington, D.C., 1915), presented by 

 the United States Geological vSurvey, Washington; ''The 

 Physical Anthropology of tlie Lenape or Delaivares..." by Ales 

 Hrdlicka (Bulletin 62.) (8vo., Washington, 1916), presented 

 by the Bureau of American Ethnology, Washington; ''Results 

 of Rainfall Observations in Java" with Atlas, by W. van Bem- 

 melen. (Foh, Batavia, 1914 and igi5), and "Results of 

 IZegistering Balloon Jlscents at Batavia " by W. van Bemmelen. 

 fVerhandelingen No. 4.) (8vo., Batavia, 1916), presented by 

 the Koninklijk Magnetisch en Aleteorologisch Observatorium te 

 Batavia,, Batavia; "The Medieval Popular Ballard" by E. G. 

 Cox (University of Washington Publications in English. Vol. 

 III.) (8vo., Boston, etc., 1914), presented by the University of 

 W^ashington, Seattle; "Results of Observations made at tfte 

 United States Coast and Geodetic Survey Magnetic Observa- 

 tory at Sitfsa, Alaska, IQ13 and 1914" by D. L. Hazard (Serial 

 No. 27) (4to., Washington, D.C., 1916), and "Determination of 

 tfte Difference in Longitude betiueen eacfi Tzvo of the Stations 

 Washington, Cambridge, and Far RocJzaivay " by F. Morse and 

 O. B. French. (Special publication. No. 35.) (8vo., Washing- 

 ton, D.C., 1916), presented by the United States Coast and 

 Geodetic .Survey; and a set of the Works of Linnaeus, com- 

 prising twenty-five volumes, presented by Dr. William 

 Carruthers, F.R.S., F.L.S., Honorary Member of the Society. 



The President referred to the death of Mr. John Angell, 

 F.C.S., F.LC, on September gth, 1916, who was a member of 

 the Society for over forty-five years. He also drew attention to 

 the death, on July 15th, 1916, of Professor Elie Metschnikoff, 

 and to the death, on July 23rd, 1916, of Sir William Ramsay, 

 K.C.B., Sc.D., F.R..S., both Honorary Members of the Society. 



" The Discussions at the Newcastle Meeting of the 

 British Association," were dealt with by Professor F. E. 

 Weiss, D.Sc, F.L.S., Professor SiR Ernest Rutherford, 

 M.A., D.Sc, F.R.S., Mr. William Thomson, F.R.S.E., 

 F.LC, and Dr. George Hickling, F.G.S. 



Professor Weiss confined his remarks to two of the com- 

 munications made to the Botanical Section. In the first place, 

 he dealt with the address of Professor F. O. Bower, on " Leaf- 

 architecture," in which Prof. Bower showed within the group 

 of Ferns that the pinnate leaves were to be considered as an 

 advanced type which could be derived from a bifurcating con- 

 dition, in which one of the lobes became arrested while the 

 other underwent further bifurcation. The conclusion was based 

 upon evidence afforded by early stages in the development of 

 the ferns in question and as confirmatory evidence numerous 

 instances of bifurcations of pinnate fronds might be cited. 



