iv Proceedings. \Octobcr 2ot/i, igoS. 



General Meeting, October 20th, 1908. 



Professor H. B. Dixon, M.A.., F.R.S., President, 

 in the Chair. 



Dr. Martin Liebert, Managing Director of Meister Lucius 

 and Piriining Ltd., Manchester, Swinton House, Wilhington, was 

 elected an ordinary member of the Society, 



Ordinary Meeting, October 20th, igo8. 



Professor H. B. Dixon, ALA., F.R.S., President, 

 in the Chair. 



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

 books upon the tables. 



Mr. D. M. S. Watson, B.Sc, made some observations on a 

 stone circle in the Orkney Islands, recently inspected by him, 

 and explained what he believed to be the method by which the 

 stones were originally placed in an upright position. He also 

 stated that there was found in the rubble with which one of the 

 stones was cemented into the ground, a stone implement with 

 hollowed sides and rounded ends, the roughened surface of which 

 pointed to its having been used as a mallet. The similarity of 

 this to implements found in great numbers at Stonehenge seemed 

 to indicate that the two circles were of approximately the same 

 period, and dated from somewhere about 1400 B.C. or 1500 B.C. 



Mr. C. Gordon Hewitt, M.Sc, F.E.S., exhibited and 

 described a collection of fossil insects from Shiobara, Japan, 

 collected there by Dr. Marie Stopes. These comprise a large 

 number of the aquatic larvae of Ephemerids ; examples of 

 certain larvae and a single pupa of insects belonging to the 

 dipterous family Ciilicidae; and representatives of a number of 

 different families of Diptera, including one or two excellently 

 preserved specimens of Cidicidae. 



