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Read, secondly, “ A Glance at the Botany of the North Shore, 
Sydney ;” by William Woolls, Esq. Communicated by the Li- 
brarian. 
Read, thirdly, “ Catalogue of the Dipterous Insects collected 
by Mr. A. R. Wallace at Gilolo, Ternate, and Ceram ;”’ by Francis 
Walker, Esq., F.L.S. (See “ Zoological Proceedings,”’ vol. vi.) 
Read, fourthly, “ Description of a (supposed) new Annelid ;”’ 
by E. Hart Vinen, Esq., M.D., F.L.8. (See “ Zoological Proceed- 
ings,’ vol. vi.) 
The alterations in the Bye-laws, proposed by the Council on 
the 17th of January, having been hung up in the Common Meet- 
ing-room of the Society, and read by the President at the two last 
successive General Meetings of the Society, were put to the 
Ballot, and confirmed by the Fellows at large in the terms of the 
Charter. (Copies of the modified Bye-laws, embodying these 
alterations, have been forwarded, by post, to the Fellows residing 
within the United Kingdom.) 
March 7th, 1861. 
Thomas Bell, Esq., President, in the Chair. 
Benjamin Carrington, Esq., M.D., was elected a Fellow. 
Mr. Busk, F.R.S., Sec. L.S., exhibited the skull of a child between 
four and five years of age, procured by Mr. Mann in the moun- 
tainous region of Fernando Po, and said to belong to a peculiar 
race of Negroes, inhabiting the higher parts of the island. The 
skull offered some peculiarities of conformation, which rendered it 
of considerable interest. 
Read, first, “ Notes on Menispermacee, Tiliacee, Bixacee, and 
Samydacee ;’ by George Bentham, Esq., V.P.L.S. (See “ Bo- 
tanical Proceedings,” 2nd Suppl. to vol. v.) 
Read, secondly, “On the Vegetation of Clarence Peak, Fer- 
nando Po; with Descriptions of Mr. G. Mann’s Plants from the 
higher parts of that Mountain;’ by J.D. Hooker, Esq., M.D., 
F.RB.S., F.L.S. (See “ Botanical Proceedings,” vol. vi.) 
