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JANUARY i/^tJi, 1895. 



ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING. 

 T. W. Hall, Esq., F.E.S., Vice-President, in the Chair. 



The Reports of the Council and Treasurer were read, and 

 the Officers and Council for the year were elected as under : 



President.— T . W. Hall, F.E.S. 



Vice-Presidents. — C. G. Barrett, F.E.S. , J. Henderson. 



Treasurer. — R. Adkin, F.E.S. 



Librarian. — H. J. Turner, F.E.S. 



Curator. — W. West (Greenwich). 



Hon. Secretaries. — Stanley Edwards, F.L.S., &c. {Corre- 

 sponding), H. J. Turner, F.E.S. (Report). 



Council.— T. R. Billups, F.E.S., C. A. Briggs, F.E.S., J. H. 

 Carpenter, C. Fenn, F.E.S., F. E. Filer, W. Mans- 

 bridge, F'.E.S., W. A. Pearce. 



In the absence of Mr. E. Step, the retiring president, Mr. 

 Hall, read the annual address, which had been forwarded to 

 him for that purpose. 



FEBRUARY i^fh, 1S95. 

 T. W. Hall, Esq., F.E.S., President, in the Chair. 



Mr. W. Furneaux, of Ommaney Road, New Cross, was 

 elected a member. 



Mr. C. A. Briggs, on behalf of Mr. Carrington, exhibited 

 specimens of the fruit of Euonymus japonica, from Ventnor, 

 Isle of Wight. Mr. Mansbridge remarked that it was very 

 unusual for this plant to produce seed in Britain, and said 

 that he noticed only one seed on each stem had come to 

 perfection, showing the unpropitious circumstances. No 

 doubt the Isle of Wight was its extreme northern limit. He 

 asked if members had noticed how completely the berries of 

 our common E. cur opens, L., were ignored by birds. 



Mr. Peach exhibited a specimen of the genus Xanthia, said 

 to be X. ocellaris, Bork., captured at Wimbledon in 1894, 

 but the general opinion of the meeting was that it was only 

 a variety of X. gilvago, Esp. Mr. Tutt stated that Conti- 

 nental specimens of X. ocellaris, which he had, were very 

 distinct in appearance from X. gilvago. Whether they were 



