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\ 

 June 9, 1859. 



Sir BENJAMIN C. BRODIE, Bart., President, in the Chair. 



The Annual General Meeting for the Election of Fellows was held 

 this day. 



The Statutes respecting the election of Fellows having been read, 

 John Bishop, Esq. and Edward Brayley, Esq. were, with the con- 

 sent of the Society, appointed Scrutators to assist the Secretaries in 

 examining the lists. 



The votes of the Fellows present having been collected, the follow- 

 ing gentlemen were declared duly elected : 



Samuel Husbands Beckles, Esq. 

 Frederick Grace Calvert, Esq. 

 Henry J. Carter, Esq. 

 Douglas Galton, Esq. 

 William Bird Herapath, M.D. 

 George Murray Humphry, Esq. 

 Thomas Sterry Hunt, Esq. 

 John Denis Macdonald, Esq. 



The Meeting then adjourned. 



William Odling, Esq. 



Robert Patterson, Esq. 



John Penn, Esq. 



Sir Robert Schomburgk. 



Thomas Watson, M.D. 



Bennet Woodcroft, Esq. 



Lieut.-Col. William Yolland, R.E. 



COMMUNICATIONS RECEIVED SINCE THE END OF THE SESSION. 



I. " On the frequent occurrence of Vegetable Parasites in the 

 Hard Structures of Animals." By Professor A. KOLLIKER, 

 of Wiirzburg. Communicated by Dr. SHARFEY, Sec. R.S. 

 Received May 30, 1859. 



As far as I am aware, Quekett has been the first to point out that 

 vegetable parasites, viz. Conferva, occur frequently in the skeleton 

 of Corals (Lectures on Histology, vol. ii. p. 153. fig. 78. and p. 276) ; 

 but although he mentions in the same place that the tubuli described 

 by Carpenter in the shells of Bivalves have also a great resemblance 

 with Conferva, he did not venture any further step, and he adheres 

 to the view of Carpenter, who regards them as a typical structure. 

 Some years later, Rose ("On Parasitic Borings in Fossil Fish- 

 Scales," Transactions of the Microscopical Society of London, vol. x. 



