11 PB0CEEDING8 OF THE 



the typical specimens of Australian Mammals and Birds, &c., 

 directed to be presented to the Museum, at the Meeting of June 

 4th; and from Mr. Brady, on the part of the Natural History 

 Society of Northumberland, Durham, and Newcastle-on-Tyne, for 

 the donation of the Herbarium of the late Mr. Winch. 



The following Papers were read, viz. : — 



1. " Note on the Structure and Mode of Dehiscence of the Le- 

 gumes o^ Fentaclethra macrophylla, Benth. ;" by Daniel Oliver, 

 Esq., F.E. & L.S. (See ' Transactions,' vol. xxiv. Part 3.) 



2. Letter from William Archer, Esq., E.L.S., to Sir W. J. 

 Hooker, E.R.S. & L.S., giving an account of some very remark- 

 able Fern trees with many crowns. (See ' Botanical Proceed- 

 ings,' vol. vii.) 



3. " Memorandum on a presumed case of Parthenogenesis in 

 Zcmthoxylum alatum, Eoxb. ;" by Daniel Hanbury, Esq., P.L.S. 

 (See 'Botanical Proceedings,' vol. vii.) 



At a Meeting subsequently held, and which had been specially 

 summoned for the Election of a Member of Council in place of 

 Beriah Botfield, Esq., deceased, Eobert Heward, Esq., was elected 

 into the Council in his &tead. 



December 3, 1863. 

 G-eorge Bentham, Esq., President, in the Chair. 



James Edward Tierney Aitchison, M.D., Edward John Waring, 

 Esq., the Eev. Julius Edmund Woods, and Eobert Carr Woods, 

 Esq., were elected Eellows. 



Sir J. B. Hearsey, K.C.B., exhibited a box of Indian Noctuidce. 



The following Papers were read, viz. : — 



1. " On the Species of Mitridce found in the Seas of Japan;" 



