LIKKEAK SOCIETY OF LONDOK. xlv 



June 2, 1864. 



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



The President nominated J. J. Bennett, Esq., J. D. Hooker, 

 M.D., John Lubbock, Esq., and W. W. Saunders, Esq., Vice- 

 Presidents for the ensuing year. 



Dr. Welwitseh, A.L.S., exhibited a series of Aroidece from An- 

 gola, principally to show the successive metamorphoses which occur 

 in the leaves of Amorphopliallus and some allied genera. 



The following Papers were read, viz. : — 



1. "On the GonantherecB^^ by John Miers, Esq., F.E.S. and 

 L.S. (See ' Transactions,' vol. xxiv. Part 3.) 



2. " On the Individual Sterility and Cross Impregnation of 

 certain species of Oncidium-^' by Mr. John Scott. Communi- 

 cated by Charles Darwin, Esq., F.E. & L.S. (See ' Botanical 

 Proceedings,' vol. viii.) 



3. "Notes on British Fungi;" by Frederick Currey, Esq., 

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



4. " On Sloetia, a new genus of Moracecs, from Sumatra and 

 Singapore ;" by Mr. Salpig Kurz, Curator of the Herbarium, 

 Botanic G-arden, Calcutta. Communicated by T. Anderson, M.D., 

 F.L.S., with a Note by Dr. Anderson. (See ' Botanical Proceed- 

 ings,' vol. viii.) 



5. " Desci^ptions of new species of Hymenopterous Insects 

 collected by Mr. A. E. Wallace in the islands of Sumatra, Sula, 

 Grilolo, Salwatty, and New Gruinea ;" by ¥. Smith, Esq., Assistant, 

 Zoological Department, British Museum. Communicated by 

 "W. "W.Saunders, Esq., V.P.L.S. (See 'Zoological Proceedings,' 

 vol. viii.) 



6. " On the Structure and Homologies of the Eeual Organ in 

 the Nudibranchiate Molhisca ;" by Albany Hancock, Esq., F.L.S. 

 (See ' Transactions,' vol. xxiv. Part 3.) 



7. " Descriptions of neAV tubiculous Aunelides in the Collection 



