308 THE ZOOLOGIST. 



' Transactions'; also on the purchase of a portrait of Jacob Bobart (1598 — 

 1679), and the President himself presented a valuable portrait of Linnaeus, 

 from life, by his countryman Magnus Hallman. 



A resolution was unanimously accorded by the Society, at the instance 

 of the chair, to Mr. G. Bentham and Sir J. D. Hooker, on the completion 

 of their great work, the ' Genera Plantarum.' 



The obituary notices of deceased Fellows was read by the Secretary. 

 Of zoologists the sudden loss in early life of Professor F. M. Balfour, of 

 Cambridge, and Mr. W. A. Forbes, Prosector to the Zoological Society, 

 being deplored. 



The Scrutineers having examined the ballot then reported that Mr. T. 

 Christy, Mr. H. E. Dresser, Mr. G. Murray, Mr. H. Saunders, and Mr. 

 H. T. Stainton had been elected into the Council in the room of Mr. H. W. 

 Bates, Mr. G. Busk, Mr. C.B.Clarke, Sir John Kirk, and Mr.R.M'Lachlan, 

 who retired ; and for officers, Sir J. Lubbock as President, Mr. Frank Crisp 

 as Treasurer, and Mr. B. Daydon Jackson and Mr. G. J. Romanes as 

 Secretaries. 



June 7, 1883.— Sir John Lubbock, Bart., M.P., F.R.S., President, in 

 the chair. 



Mr. R. J. Clarke and Mr. Frank Matthews were elected Fellows of the 

 Society. 



Mr. George Murray exhibited specimens of Dace killed by the fuugus 

 disease [Saprolegnea ferax), the result of inoculation, and said to be the 

 first recorded experimental proof of the communicability of the disease to 

 those fish. 



Prof. Cobbold exhibited some shrimps sent by Dr. Burge, of Shanghai. 

 They contained immature flukes, which it was thought might prove to be 

 the larval state of one or other of the three species of human fluke known 

 to infest man in eastern countries. He proposed to call the parasite 

 Cercoaria Burgei. 



A communication was read from Mr. George Lewis, " On Japan 

 Brenthida, and Notes of their Habits." These beetles form part of the 

 collection made by the author in his visit to Japan during the summers of 

 188U-»1. The author observes there is no geographical barrier sufficient 

 to exclude tropical forms from Japan, but their environment when they 

 reach it prevents them from establishing themselves, to any great extent 

 at least, in the northern parts. In the southern islands of the Japanese 

 Archipelago the warmer climate enables a fair number of beetles of a truly 

 tropical type to exist. The fact that each genus is only represented by one 

 species nevertheless points to some physical check in their spread and 

 numbers. A new genus, Hiyonius, is characterised, and several species of 

 this and other genera described and illustrated. 





