Proceedings. 35 



\Microscopical and Natural History Section^ 



Ordinary Meeting, December 8th, 1890. 



Alex. Hodgkinson, M.B., B.Sc, President of the Section, 



in the Chair. 



Mr. Arnold Umfreville Henn was elected an 

 associate. 



There were exhibited : — 



By Mr. H. Hyde, a number of curious foreign fruits ; 

 Mr. Chas. Bailey, F.L.S., the cones of Pinus pinea^ and 

 the edible seeds taken from them ; the President, a 

 remarkable illustrated work on Botany, Natural History, 

 and Petrology, dated 1492, in which were described and 

 figured a number of strange creatures still unknown to 

 science ; and by Mr. J. CoSMO Melvill, F.L.S., a series of 

 very beautiful Coleoptera of the genus Carabus^ section 

 CeroglossuSy from Chili and Patagonia. 



Mr. J. Cosmo Melvill, F.L.S., read a paper describing 

 Drosera intermedia (Hague) var. subcaulescens, from Wybun- 

 bury Bog, Cheshire, illustrated by a drawing, and exhibited 

 specimens of this and other Droserce for comparison. 



Mr. Mark Stirrup, F.G.S., read a letter from one of 

 the associates of the section, Mr. W. Ladd Torrance, Java, 

 describing some experiences when hunting for natural 

 history and geological specimens ; and exhibited a photo- 

 graph of a range of volcanoes in Java, with a plain of sand 

 at their base, and a number of so-called " lucky stones,'* 

 which Mr. TORRANCE had sent home. 



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