168 PROCEEDINGS OF SOCIETIES. 
19th January, 1865. 
Read the minutes of the preceeding meeting, which were passed 
and signed. 
Read a letter addressed to Dr. Barker by Rev. Mr. Furlong, of 
Bath, introducing to his notice Mr. Adolph Leipner, of Bristol ; 
also one from the latter gentleman stating his desire to enter into 
correspondence with the club in the way of exchange of specimens 
or of any material. 
Ortlered, that Mr. Archer acknowledge receipt of these polite 
communications, and at the same time mention that the club 
would be happy to reciprocate as far as lay in its power; but few, 
if any, of the members were at present employed to any extent in 
putting up preparations. 
r. E. Perceval Wright exhibited a specimen of Yomopteris 
omsciformis which he had taken in Bantry Bay. Whilst collect- 
ing some floating Actinozoa he saw a transparent worm-like 
creature swimming in the water, and at once secured it in a glass 
collecting-jar. It lived in confinement some days, but, having been 
slightly injured by the compressor, it died. Dr. Wright described 
the chief anatomical peculiarities of this strange form, giving a 
detailed account of the long atenne-like organs which are found 
on either side of the head, and of the curious tail-like portion. He 
suggested that perhaps many of the known forms of Tomopteris 
might be nothing but “parent stocks,’ as described by Louis 
Agassiz, and that the tale-like portion might develop itself into a 
fertile individual. In conclusion, he adverted to the papers of 
Pagenstecher and Carpenter on this little annelid, and trusted 
that before long something would be known of its development. — 
Mr. Archer then showed specimens of the debatable plant 
Chroolepus ebeneum, and showed its structure (as he regarded 
it) under the microscope to consist of a linear or contervoid series 
of cells, bounded by what he might term a cortical investment of 
separable filaments composed of much thinner and colourless cells ; 
in a word, showing a structure of thallus quite like that of the 
lichenous genus Ceenogonium; of this genus he showed Schaven- 
dener’s figures in the ‘Flora’ for 1862, and Nylander’s in 
‘Annales des Sciences naturelles’ for 1861, in order to show 
more intelligibly what was meant, his object being to argue that, 
inasmuch as this plant (Chroolepus ebeneum) has a thalloid strue- 
ture like that of Coenogonium, in all probability the former plant 
is not an alga, but a lichen, as in it the linear central series of 
cells would, quite as well as in Ccenogonium, represent the gonidial 
stratum of a typical lichen, and the cortical investing filaments 
would in like manner represent the fibrous element. ‘lherefore, 
though no fruit had been as yet ever seen in the plant Chroolepus 
ebeneum, Mr. Archer would hazard a prediction that, when dis-- 
covered, it would be found to produce apothecia like Coenogonium. 
In any case it is by no means congenerie with Chroolepus aureum, 
as even its thalloid structure and appearance, irrespective of fruc- 
