CEYLON NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY. 399 
PROCEEDINGS OF THE CEYLON NATURAL 
HISTORY SOCIETY. 
Seventeenth General Meeting. 
THE Seventeenth General Meeting of the Society was held in 
the Colombo Museum Library on June 6, 1916, at 5.15 P.m., with 
Dr. A. Nell in the Chair. 
A lecture on “ Plant Dispersal’? was delivered by G. Bryce 
Esq., Assistant Botanist and Mycologist, Peradeniya, and severa 
specimens of seeds, &c., were exhibited. 
Mr. W. A. Cave read a paper entitled ‘‘Some Notes on the 
Flight of the Albatross,’ made on a recent voyage to Australia. 
Eighteenth General Meeting. 
The Eighteenth General Meeting of the Society was held in the 
Colombo Museum Library on September 20, 1916, at 5.15 p.m., 
with Dr. A. Nell in the Chair. 
A lecture on ‘‘ Root Parasitism (Flowering Plants)’ was 
delivered by H. L. van Buuren, Esq., which was well illustrated 
by diagrams and specimens. 
Nineteenth General Meeting. 
The Nineteenth General Meeting of the Society was held on 
January 18, 1917, in the Colombo Museum Library, at 5.15 p.M., 
with Dr, A. Nell in the Chair. 
A resolution to the effect that the annual subscription of bona 
fide students of recognized institutions in Ceylon shall be two 
rupees was unanimously passed. Twenty-seven student members 
were elected. 
Miss Ursula van Rooyen read a paper on ‘‘ Autotomy in 
Crustacea,”’ illustrating her remarks by diagrams and demonstra- 
tions on live specimens. 
An account of a fight between a frog and a sparrow was given 
by C. T. Symons, Esq., who had witnessed the incident. 
The Chairman took this opportunity of bidding farewell, on 
behalf of the Members of the Society, to Dr. Joseph Pearson, who 
was about to proceed to England to offer himself for war service. 
