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is, if the speakex^'s interpretation of the presence of tracheae 

 were correct. It would be interesting, in view of Dr. Lam- 

 born's observations, to know whether the anal tufts in Amauris 

 were in connection with any secreting cells or other similar 

 apparatus. For this purpose no information could be expected 

 from dried specimens, and it would be most desirable to have 

 fresh material treated with proper reagents on the spot, and 

 so sent home in a condition fitted for microscopic examination.* 



Professor Kellogg of California, who was present as a 

 visitor, called attention, in connection with Dr. Dixey's 

 remarks, to a paper by Mr. B. Thomas, of Cornell University, 

 on the scent-glands in the wings of butterflies. In this paper 

 Mr. Thomas described certain unicellular glands at the base 

 of the androconia, which presumably could be interpreted as 

 the producers of the scent-stuff given off by the androconia. 

 Professor Kellogg added that in sections of wings made by 

 himself he had noticed similar glands. It would be difficult 

 to prove the actual continuity of the glands and scales, 

 because of the peculiar mode of attachment of the scales to 

 the wings, viz. by the insertion of a bulb-like expansion of 

 the pedicel of the scale into a small pocket or cup in the 

 membrane, the base of the scale and the membrane being 

 quite discontinuous. 



Dr. DiXEY, in thanking Professor Kellogg for his interest- 

 ing observations, observed that the expansion of the pedicel 

 was not really a bulb, but a disc. 



Wednesday, April 3rd, 1912. 



The Eev. F. D. Morice, M.A., President, in the Chair. 



Election of Fellows. 



The following gentlemen were elected Fellows of the 



Society : — Mr. Henry Hacker, Queensland Museum, Bowen 



Bridge Eoad, Brisbane, Queensland ; Mr. Cyril Engelhart 



Latour, Port of Spain, Trinidad, British West Indies ; Signer 



Orazio Querci, Macerata, Marche, Italy. 



* Many of tliese points were more fully dealt with in Dr. Dixey's 

 Presidential Address of 1910. [Ed.] 



