iv ProceI'.DINGS. [October 21st, igiS- 



General Meeting, October 21st, 1913. 



The President, Mr. Francis Nicholson, F.Z.S., 

 in the Chair. 



Mr. A. D. Imms, M.A., D.Sc, Reader in Agricultural Ento- 

 mology in the Victoria University of Manchester, was elected 

 an ordinary member of the Society. 



Ordinary Meeting, October 21st, 1913. 



T he President, Wx. Francis Nicholson, F.Z.S., 

 in the Chair. 



A vote of thanks was accorded the donors of the books 

 upon the table. 



A paper, entitled " Changes in the branchial lamellae 

 of Ligia oceaiiica after prolonged immersion in fresh and 

 salt water," by Miss Dorothy A. Stewart, B.Sc, was read by 

 Professor Hickson, F.R.S. 



This paper is printed in full in the Memoirs. 



Dr. H. G. A. HicKLiNG exhibited a series of Old Red 

 Sandstone Fish, from the Manchester Museum, presented by 

 Mr. D. M. S. Watson, M.Sc, and he alluded to the complete- 

 ness and to the valuable nature of the collection of fishes from 

 these rocks now contained in the Museum. A brief account 

 was given of the chief features of interest of the specimens 

 exhibited and of the bearing of these fish remains on the early 

 history of the vertebrates. 



