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FIFTEENTH MEETING. 



RoY.^x Insthttiox. — May 29, 1854. 



JOSEPH DICKINSON, M.D., F.L.S., &c. Pkesiiient, in the Chair. 



Mr. Charlks Kirwax was ballotted for, aud duly elected an Ordinary 

 Member. 



Mr. J. B. Yates exhibited a specimen of Paper (given to him by 

 Mr. David Gladstone) made of the fibre of the Plantain Musa Para- 

 disiaca. 



Mr. F. P. Marrat exhibited a Lizard, captured amongst the sand 

 hills, at Southport ; also specimens of the folloAving Mosses, viz. : — 

 Brijum incUnatum ; Annandale, May, 1854. 

 Hypnum elodes ; Southport, May, 1854. 

 Fissidens inciirvus ; Bidston. 

 Hypnum medium; Hooton, April, 1854. 

 Mr. J. B. Yates exhibited old French documents, containing the 

 Autographs of Louis XIII. and XIV. ; also of Marshall Bouflers and 

 the ^linister Chamillard. 



