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features given as suggesting relationship of Limulus with the 

 Crustacea, but the large number of agreements with Scorpio 

 in so many details incline most naturalists to the belief that 

 it is a scorpion modified for an aquatic existence. For 

 further details see the article by Prof. E. Ray Lankester in 

 " Quarterly Journal Microscopical Science," 1881. 



MARCH gth, 1905. 



The President in the Chair. 



Mr. Main exhibited a box, in which he had some time ago 

 placed a spider found in a vessel which had brought over a 

 cargo of sugar from Java. The spider had laid a consider- 

 able number of ova, from which a brood of young spiders 

 had emerged. These young ones had spun a dense mass of 

 webs and then changed their skins, which hung about among 

 the webs in all directions. 



He also showed a photograph of the hibernating larva of 

 Apatura iris on a leaf of sallow in situ. The larva was stated 

 to be mainly brown in colour while hibernating ; only a very 

 small amount of green markings was present. 



The remaining portion of the evening was devoted to an 

 exhibition of lantern slides by Messrs. Dennis, Lucas, Tonge, 

 Harrison, and Main. 



MARCH 23rd, 1905. 



The President in the Chair. 



The death of a member, Mr. Alfred Beaumont, was 

 announced. 



Mr. H. Moore exhibited a large globe fish and contributed 

 the following note : " Tetradon fahaka. — One of the so-called 

 ' globe ' or ' parrot ' fishes, two popular names descriptive 

 of their most striking characteristics. That of ' globe fish ' 

 is derived from their capacity of filling their bodies with air, 

 in which state they float on the surface of the water, belly 

 upward ; that of ' parrot fish ' from the shape of their mouths, 

 the bones of the head being more or less blended together, 

 so as to form a sharp cutting beak. The flesh is exceedingly 

 poisonous. The present species is found on both the east 

 and west coasts of Africa and up the Rivers Nile and Niger. 

 The specimen exhibited is from the Red Sea." 



