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fathoms. From the Australian Region eleven species, with one exception 
(C. solida), obtained from two to four fathoms. Only two species obtain 
from the North Pacific Region, respectively 18 to 310 fathoms. From the 
South Pacific 304 species have been derived, 45 to 150 fathoms being the 
extremes of depths, save in the case of C. magellensis from 1325 fathoms, 
Mr. Busk arranges the ‘Challenger’ Cellepore into five sections dis- 
tinguished by the general habit of the Zoarium, viz.:—(1) Encrusting or 
foliaceous expanded ; (2) Hollow or more or less cylindrical ; (3) Branched, 
solid; (4) Of massive irregular growth; (5) Fusiform. He describes among 
others some thirty new species, and observes that as a whole the genus 
“Cellepora of this Expedition appear to belong to comparatively shallow 
water. 
Anniversary Meeting, May 24, 1881.—Prof. Atuman, LL.D., F.R.S., 
President, in the chair. 
There was a numerous attendance of the Fellows. The Treasurer (Mr. F. 
Currey) read his annual report stating that financially the Society continued 
prosperous. Afterwards the Secretary (Mr. B. Daydon Jackson) read his 
report. Since the last anniversary eleven Fellows of the Society had died 
and four had withdrawn; against this thirty-seven new Fellows had been 
elected, besides one Foreign Member and one Associate. After fifty years’ 
service Mr. Kippist had resigned his position as Librarian to the Society, 
and the Council, in acknowledgment thereof, had granted him a retiring 
pension. Prof. Allman then delivered his anniversary address, his subject 
being “ Recent Advances in our Knowledge of the Development of the 
Ctenophora.” The Secretary afterwards read obituary notices of the several 
Fellows, making special mention of Mr. E. R. Alston, Mr. John Gould, 
Mr. Gerrard Krefft, Dr. Lauder Lindsay, and Mr. A. Pryor. 
The Scrutineers reported that Mr. A. W. Bennett, Mr. F. Darwin, 
Prof. EK. R. Lankester, Sir J. Lubbock, and Mr. J. G. Romanes had been 
elected into the Council, in the room of E. R. Alston (deceased), Dr. T. 
Boycott, Prof. M. Foster, Dr. J. G. Jeffreys, and Prof. Mivart, who retired ; 
and for officers, Sir J. Lubbock as President, F. Currey as Treasurer, and 
B. D. Jackson and G. J. Romanes as Secretaries. 
June 2, 1881.—Sir J. Lussock, Bart., F.R.S., President, in the chair. 
Mr. R. Romanes, of Rangoon, was elected a Fellow. 
Dr. G. Hoggan exhibited and made remarks on preparations of the 
lymphatics of vascular walls. 
Mr. Elwes exhibited samples of quinine made by a new process, without 
expensive chemical apparatus, by Mr. Gammie, superintendent Government 
Cinchona plantations of Sikim. 
Sir J. Lubbock read a paper “ On the Habits of Ants.” 
