lvi PROCEEDINGS OF THE 
The President announced to the Society the following Resolu- 
tion of the Council, agreed to at a Meeting held this day :— 
“Resolved, that in conformity with chapter 2, section 6, and 
with chapter 7, section 2, of the Bye-laws, the name of Mr. 
Nathaniel Haslope Mason, who has failed to pay his arrears of 
annual contributions, and neglected repeated applications made 
to him for payment, be proposed to the General Meeting, to be 
held this day, for Hjection from the Society.” 
The President then proposed the Ejection of Mr. N. H. Mason, 
and announced that the ballot upon the question would be taken 
at the next Meeting, on the 19th instant. 
The following Papers were read :— 
1. “On anew Genus of Zwnicata, occurring on one of the Bel- 
lona Reefs ;? by John D. Macdonald, Esq., R.N., F.R.S. Com- 
-municated by the Secretary. (See ‘ Zoological Proceedings,’ 
vol. vi.) 
2. “ Note on the Occurrence of the Crustacean, Seyllarus Arctus, 
in England;’? by Jonathan Couch, Esq., F.L.S. (See ‘ Zoolo- 
gical Proceedings,’ vol. vi.) 
3. “A Note on the Formation of Pearls ;’? by Robert Garner, 
Esq., F.L.8. In this communication the author stated that, in 
his microscopical examination of pearls from mussels taken at the 
mouth of the Conway, he was led to attribute their formation to 
the deposit in the mantle of the exuvie or secretions of a small 
species of Distoma. 
December 19th, 1861. 
The Meeting appointed to be held this day was postponed, by 
direction of the President, in consequence of the death of His 
Royal Highness The Prince Consort. 
