Novejiiber 2nd, igog.] PROCEEDINGS. v 



General Meeting, November 2nd, 1909. 



The President, Mr. Francis Jones, M.Sc, F.R.S.E., 

 in the Chair. 



Mr. W. H. Lang, D.Sc, M.B., CM., Barker Professor of 

 Cryptogamic Botany in the University of Manchester, and 

 Sir Thomas Henry Holland, K.C.I. E., D.Sc, F.R.S., Professor 

 of Geology and Mineralogy in the University of Manchester, 

 late Director of the Geological Survey of India, were elected 

 ordinary members of the Society. 



Ordinary Meeting, November 2nd, 1909. 



The President, Mr. Francis Jones, M.Sc, F.R.S.E., 

 in the Chair. 



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

 books upon the tables. 



The President announced that Sir T. H. Holland, K.C.I.E., 

 D.Sc, F.R.S., Professor of Geology and Mineralogy in the 

 Manchester University, had agreed to deliver the Wilde Lecture 

 for 1 9 10. 



Professor Sydney J. Hickson, D.Sc, F.R.S., exhibited a 

 specimen of a double hen's egg and contributed the following 

 note upon it. 



A specimen of a double hen's egg was sent to the Man- 

 chester Museum on September 8th of this year. The outer 

 shell is approximately 80 mm. x 60 mm., the inner shell 

 50 mm. X 40 mm. 



The inner shell contained yolk, with, probably, a little 

 albumen, and the space between the inner and outer shell 

 contained albumen only. I am, unfortunately, unable to say 

 whether there were two yolks or only one in the inner shell. 

 Both shells are well formed. 



