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The President made a few remarks upon a specimen 

 of a Cowslip shewing petallody. 



Mr. C. L. Barnes, M.A., showed a copper token which had 

 been discovered in the excavations made for the new buildings 

 at the Manchester Grammar School. It was struck by Joannes 

 Paula Lascaris, Grand Master of the Knights of .Malta from 

 1636 to 1657, and bore what vvas probably a part of the 

 inscription non .\es sed fides, some imes found on old 

 Maltese coins. 



A paper by Dr. Henry Wildk, F.R.S., was read, entitled 

 "On Search Lights for the Mercantile Marine," 



Air. Francis Jones, M.Sc, F.R.S.E., F.C.S., read a paper 

 entitled "The VolatiHty of Sulphur and its Action on 

 Water.' 



Mr. T. (j. B. OsBORN, M.Sc, communicated "A Note on 

 the Submerged Forest at Llanaber, Barmouth." 



Miss Mary A. Johnstone, B.Sc, read a paper entitled 

 "On Calamites {Calamitina) variafis, Sternb., var. insignis, 



Weiss." 



Mr. T. A. Coward, F.Z.S., made a communication, entitled 

 "The Smelt in Rostherne Mere " 



These papers are printed in full in the Memoirs. 



