452 Mr. F. E. Beddard. On the Uoi.wlogy between [Nov.- 27, 



November 27, 1890. 



Mr. JOHN EVANS, D.C.L., Treasurer and Vice-President, in the 



Chair. 



In pursuance of the Statutes, notice of the ensuing Anniversary 

 Meeting was given from the Chair, and the list of Officers and Council 

 nominated for election was read as follows : 



President. Sir William Thomson, D.C.L., LL.D. 

 Treasurer. John Evans, D.C.L., LL.D. 



( Professor Michael Foster, M.A., M.D. 

 Secretaires.- Rayleigh> M A? D c L 



Foreign Secretary. Archibald Geikie, LL.D. 



Other Members of the Council. Professor William Edward Ayrton ; 

 William Henry Mahoney Christie, M.A. ; Professor W. Boyd Dawkins, 

 M.A. ; James Whitbread Lee Glaisher, D.Sc. ; Hugo Miiller, Ph.D. ; 

 Professor Alfred Newton, M.A. ; Sir William Roberts, M.D. ; William 

 Chandler Roberts- Ansten, F.C.S. ; Professor Edward Albert Schafer. 

 M.R.C.S. ; Sir George Gabriel Stokes, Bart., M.A. ; Lieut. -General 

 Richard Strachey, R.E. ; Professor Joseph John Thomson, MA. ; 

 Professor Thomas Edward Thorpe, B.Sc. ; Sir William Turner, M.D. ; 

 Professor Sydney Howard Vines, M.A. ; General James Thomas 

 Walker, C.B. 



The Presents received were laid on the table, and thanks ordered for 

 them. 



The following Papers were read : 



I. " On the Homology between Genital Ducts and Nepbridia 

 in the Oligocbseta." By FRANK E. BEDDARD, M.A., 

 Prosector of the Zoological Society. Communicated by 

 Professor E. RAY LANKESTER, M.A., LL.D., F.R.IS. Re- 

 ceived October 10, 1890. 



It is usually stated in text books that the genital ducts of the 

 Oligocheeta are homologous with nephridia ; but nevertheless the 

 question is one which has not yet been satisfactorily settled, for the 



