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versity of California : Cofitetits-Index,'" vol. I. (8vo., Beikeley, 

 Cal., 1889-1890), presented by the University of California; 

 " Annotated Catalogue of Newspaper Files in the Library of the 

 State Historical Society of Wisconsin," 2nd ed., by A. T. Giiswold 

 (8vo., Madison, Wiss., 1911), presented by tlie State Historical 

 Society of Wisconsin; ''Report of the Committee appointed to 

 report upon the Carboniferous Limestone Formation of the North 

 of England, wi h special reference to its Coal Resources," by 

 Stanley Smith (8vo., Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 191 2), presented by 

 the North of England Institute of Mining and Mechanical 

 Engineers ; " The Keuper Marls around Charnivood" by T. O. 

 Bosworth (8vo., Leicester, n.d.), presented by the Leicester 

 Literary and Philosophical Society ; and one hundred and sixty- 

 two Dissertations, presented by the K. Christian-Albrechts 

 Universitet, Kiel. 



The President referred to the death, on April nth, of 

 Mr. Robert Cotton, M.Sc. Mr. Cotton had been a member 

 of the Society since October 18th, 19 10. The Society was 

 represented at the funeral by Professor J. E. Petavel. 



A question relating to the migration of birds was asked by 

 Mr. C. L. Barnes, to which Mr. T. A. Coward replied. 



Mr. Francis Nicholson occupied the chair during the 

 reading, by the President, of a paper entitled "A Tylo- 

 dendron-like Fossil." Professor Weiss gave an account 

 of the structure of a Tylodendron-like fossil recently exhibited 

 to the Society by Mr. T. A. Coward. 



Mr. Wilfrid Robinson, B..Sc. (Lond.), read a paper 

 entitled "On some relations between Fuccinia tnalvaccamm 

 (Mont.) and the tissues of its host plant {Althaea rosea)." 



These papers are printed in full in the Memoirs. 



