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that Sir George Hampson should be invited to take part in 

 the discussion of tlie question at the December meeting. 



Wednesday, November 21st, 1917. 

 Dr. C. J. Gahan, M.A., D.Sc, President, in the Chair. 



Nomination of Officers. 



The following Fellows were nominated as Officers and 

 Members of Council for the ensuing year : — 



President, Dr. C. J. Gahan, M.A., D.Sc. Treasiirer, W. G. 

 Sheldon. Secretaries, Comm. James J. Walker, M.A., R.N., 

 F.L.S. ; Rev. George Wheeler, M.A., F.Z.S. Librarian, 

 George Charles Champion, F.Z.S., A.L.S. Other Members 

 of Council, A. W. Bacot; E. C. Bedm^ell; K. G. Blair; 

 Dr. T. A. Chapman, M.D., F.Z.S. ; W. C. Crawley, B.A. ; 

 H. WiLLOUGHBY Ellis, F.Z.S. ; Dr. H. Eltringham, M.A., 

 D.Sc, F.Z.S.; J. C. F. Fryer, M.A. ; A. Hugh Jones; Rev. 

 F. D. Morice, M.A.; S. A. Neave, M.A., B.Sc, F.Z.S.; 

 Herbert E. Page. 



Election of Fellows. 



Messrs. Frederick Walter Cocks, 26, Crown Street, 

 Reading, and William Gerald Harding, St. Hugh's School, 

 Bickley, Kent, were elected Fellows of the Society. 



Exhibitio7is. 



British Chrysophanus dispar, var. rutilus. — Capt. 

 PuREFOY exhibited a series of British C. dispar, var. rutilus, 

 whose ancestors had come from the neighbourhood of Berlin 

 before the war. They were now firmly established in a marsh 

 in South Ireland, into which the food-plant, Rumex hydro- 

 lapathum, had also been introduced. The series exhibited 

 included specimens taken in 1915, 1916 and 1917, and showed 

 a remarkable increase in size during this short period, the 

 cJ c? reaching 50 mm. and one of the ? $ 52 mm. The depth 

 of colouring on the upper side was also much intensified. 

 There was still, however, much less blue on the under surface. 



