vi I'ROCKEDlNCiS. [December 1 2l/i, iSgg. 



Professor Wkiss exhibited some specimens of Mclaiwspora 

 parasitica found by Mr. II. Murray at Flixton. 'I'his species of 

 Me/aiiospora is now known to l)e [parasitic on another fungus, 

 /sarin farinosa, whicli infests the laiv;e and pupx' of various 

 insects. The latter fungus {/saria) is now recognised as being 

 another stage of growth of Cordiccps militaris, whicli has been 

 particularly common this autumn. 



" Report on the Marine Mollusca obtained during 

 the Jackson-Harmsworth Expedition to Franz Josef 

 Land, 1896-7." by Mr. J. Cosmo Melvill, M.A., F.L.S , 

 and Mr. Roiikrt Standen. 



The paper will be published in full in the Memoirs, 



Ordinary Meeting, December 12th, 1899. 

 HoRACK I>AMB, M.A., F. R.S., President, in the Chair. 



The thanks of the members were voted to the donors of the 

 books upon the table. 



The President annoimced that the Council had made the 

 following awards : — The ^Vilde Medal for 1900 to Lord Rayleigh, 

 F.R.S., for his numerous and brilliant contributions to mathe- 

 matical and experimental physics and to chemistry; a 1 )alton 

 Medal (struck in 1864) to Sir H. E. Roscoe, F.R.S., for his 

 remarkable original researches in chemistry and for his dis- 

 tinguished services to scientific education; the Wilde Premium 

 for 1900 to Professor A. W. Flux for his papers on economic 

 questions read before the Society. It was also announced that 

 Lord Rayleigh had been invited, and had consented, to deliver 

 the Wilde Lecture for 1900. 



The President called the attention of the members to the 

 award of the Davy Medal by the Council of the Royal Society 

 to Dr. lulward Schunck, 1\R.S. (an ex president and the oldest 

 member of the Society). 



