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portrait of his father, the late John Miers, as a memento of his 
connection therewith—Prof. Allman then delivered his anni- ~ 
versary address, the subject chosen being “ Recent advances in 
our Knowledge of the Development of the Ctenophora.’’—The 
Secretary afterwards read obituary notices of the several Fellows 
who had died during the year, making special mention of the 
life and labours of Mr. E. R. Alston, the late Zoological 
Secretary ; Mr. John pee the ornithologist; Mr. Gerard Krefft, 
of Sydney; Dr. W. Lau uder Lindsa ay, and Mr. R. A. Pryor, of 
Baldock, Herts.—The scrutineers, having examined the ballot, 
then reported that, by a majority of those present, Mr. Alfred W. 
Bennett, Mr. Francis Darwin, Prof. E. R. Lankester, Sir John 
Lubbock, and Mr. Geo. J. Romanes, had been elected into the 
Mr. F. Currey re-elected Treasurer, Mr. B. Daydon Jackson re- 
elected Botanical Secretary, and Mr. G. J. Romanes was elected 
Zoological Secretary 
Jun ages Lubbock, Bart., F.R.8., President, in the 
chair. Me. ie Somerville, Capt. 7 5 Wrig t, and John 
“Forrest, the Australian explorer, were elected Fellows of the 
Society —The Secretary read a portion of a letter addressed to 
illiam Fe 
im by Mr. William Ferguson, of Colombo, in eae he men- 
tioned his having found Wolfia arrhiza, Wim abundance 
in an abandoned stone quarry, covering the ae of the water ; 
and that in a recent trip to the Kandyan country he had also dis- 
covered Adiantum athiopicum, Linn., both these plants being new to 
Ceylon.—Mr. J. G. Baker exhibited and called the attention of the 
fore, be alluded to as one of the oldest and yet newest of plants.— 
Surgeon-Major Aitchison then read a communication ‘On the 
Flora of the Kuram Valley, pe Part IT.; he showed by 
a map the peculiarities and nature of the valley s and mountain 
the oa course of the River Ninda, an affluent of the Zambesi, 
on the west side of the high plateau. 
Botanical News. 
Ernst Hampz, who died on the 28rd November, 1880, at 
Helmstedt, Hanover, was one of the most diligent workers among 
the Muscinea. Amon ng his iillependant writings may be named 
