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the Quaternary Soil of the Hydrographical Basins of the Tagus and 

 the Sado, map. 4tQ. Presented by Mr. Darwin. 



R. Garner. Holiday excursions of a naturalist. Presented by 

 the Author. 



C. Martens. On British and other Botanical Gardens (from the 

 Eevue des Deux Mondes). Presented by the Author. 



Catalogue of the National Portrait Exhibition, 18G8. Presented 

 by the Science and Art Department of the Committee of the Council 

 of Education. 



February 4th, 1869. 



George Bentham, Esq., President, in the Chair. 



Mr. Carruthors, F.L.S., exhibited a male cone of EncepJudartos 

 latifrons, Lehm., which had been produced by a plant in the col- 

 lection of James Yates, Esq., of Lauderdale House, Highgate. It 

 possessed characters by which it might be distinguished from the 

 cones of E. horridus, Lehm., to which species it had been referred 

 as a variety by Miquol and De Candolle. 



The following papers were read : — 



1. "On the Stone-Grasshopper of Graham's Town, South Africa," 

 by Mrs. Barber. Communicated by Dr. Hooker, V.P.L.S. &c. 



2. " Catalogue of Ceylon Spiders," Part 1, by the Rev. 0. P. 

 Cambridge. Communicated by James Salter, Esq., E.L.S. 



3. " Descriptions of two new Species of Araneidea, with cha- 

 racters of a new Genus," by the same. 



4. " List of Spiders captured by E. P. "Wright, M.D., in the Pro- 

 vince of Lucca, in the Summer of 1863, with Characters of new or 

 little-known Species," by John Blackwall, Esq., F.L.S. 



5. " Eemarks on several Genera of Annelides belonging to the 

 group of Eunicea," by William Balrd, M.D., F.L.S. 



6. " Observations on Lichens collected by R. Brown, Esq., 

 F.E.G.S., in West Greenland," by W. L. Lindsay, M.D., F.L.S. 



