xii Proceedings. [January 26th, 1915. 



and others, Vol. III. (fol., Edinburgh, 19 14), presented by the 

 Royal Observatory, Greenwich. 



Professor Weiss introduced to the Society Dr. J. Mac Leod, 

 Professor of Botany in the University of Ghent, and for the 

 present a guest of the University of Manchester 



Professor G. Elliot Smith, M.A., M.D., F.R.S., gave an 

 account of some mummies from Torres Straits, now in museums 

 in Sydney and Brisbane, which he examined during a recent 

 visit to Australia. These mummies reveal a series of features 

 in the technique of the embalmer's art curiously similar to those 

 exhibited in ancient Egyptian mummies. This is an important 

 confirmation of the views put forward by Professor Elliot Smith 

 of the extension of ancient Egyptian influence to the far East 

 and the Pacific. 



Professor W. H. Lang, M.B., D.Sc, F.R.S., read a paper 

 entitled : "Studies in the Morphology of Isoetes. Part II., 

 The Analysis of the Stele of the Shoot of Isoetes lacustris 

 in the light of mature structure and apical develop- 

 ment." 



This paper will be printed in full in the Memoirs. 



Ordinary Meeting, January 26th, 1915. 



The President, Mr. Francis Nicholson, F.Z.S., 

 in the Chair. 



A vote of thanks was accorded the donors of the books 

 upon the table. Amongst these were : "Results of Observations 

 ...U.S. Magnetic Survey ...Tue 'son, 191 1 and IQ12" by I). L. 

 Hazard (4to., Washington, 1914), presented by the United 

 States Coast and Geodetic Survey; Hertfordshire Mafls,...fj7p- 

 1900" by H. G. Fordham, Parts I. -III. (4to., n.p., n.d.), 



