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St. Thomas Place, Hackney ; Jolm Hopkinson, 8, Lawn 

 Eoad, H;iverstock Hill, jV.W. ; John Barber, 29, Bruns- 

 wick Gardens, Carapden Hill ; Samuel John Mclutire, 22, 

 Bessborough Gardens, S.W. ; "William Allbon, 525, JSTew Oxford. 

 Street ; James Bell, Inland Revenue Laboratory, Somerset 

 House ; Arthur Raymond Betts, St. John's Park, Upper 

 Holloway ; Henry James Helm, The Laboratory, Somerset 

 House; John Edmund Ingpen, 7, Putney Hill, Surrey; 

 "William Manning, 47, Clifton Road East ; John Rogerson, 

 St. Clair Cottage, St. John's Wood ; George Xaylor Stokor, 

 Inland Revenue Laboratory, Somerset House; Arthur O'Brien 

 Jones, The Shrubbery, Epsom, Surrey ; John Martin, M.D., 

 Cambridge House, Portsmouth ; John Robinson Barnes, M.D., 

 Ewell, Surrey; AVilliam Savill Kent, 56, Queen's Road, Netting 

 Hill ; Williain White, 3, Milner Square, Islington. 



The following gentlemen were balloted for and duly elected 

 Fellows of the Societv : 



Charles Coppock, "Peter J. Gowlland, E.R.C.S., G. E. Legg 

 Pearce, Henry Sugden Evans, and John W^illiams, as Honorary 

 Fellow. 



The Peeside:n't repeated the notice given at the former meet- 

 ing respecting the opening of the Library. 



A paper was read by John Goeham, M.R.C.S., &c., "On 

 Some Peculiarities in the Distribution of Veins in Umbelliferae." 

 (See 'Trans.,' p. 14.) 



Mr. Jabez Hogg expressed surprise to find that a subject 

 of apparently much interest, one most ably brought to the notice 

 of the Society, had received so small an amount of attention from 

 botanical writers. In a letter received from Dr. Maxwell 

 Masters, that botanist offered a few remarks bearing on the 

 question before them, which he would, with the permission of the 

 president, read to the Society. Dr. Masters says : — " I have had 

 some correspondence with Mr. Gorham about the matter (of the 

 venation of the IJmbellifera') , and believe that the facts he has 

 discovered have not been recorded before ; at any rate, I have 

 failed to find any notice of them up to the present time. The 

 peculiarity in question is found in some other plants, and is not, 

 I should imagine, of any very great physiological importance. In 

 a group like the IJm belli ferae, where the species, and even the 

 genera, are often so hard to discriminate, it is an excellent thing 

 to get hold of facts like tiiose discovered by Mr. Gorham, and I 

 am very glad that he has taken the matter up, as I believe there 

 are many similar things that have been overlooked, and which 

 when collated will be very serviceable. Nature printing has done 

 a good deal in this way. The publications of some Austrian 

 botanists — Ettingohausen, Pokorny, and others — are worthy of at- 

 tentive examination with reference to the venation of fossil, or of 

 recent leaves." 



Although quite true that some other plants have a similar kind 

 of venation, Mr, Hogg believed it would be difficult to show that 



