Proceedings. 191 



[Microscopical and Natural History Section^ 



Annual Meeting, April 8th, 1895. 



John Boyd, Esq., President of the Section, in the Chair. 



The annual report of the Council and the Treasurer's 

 financial statement were submitted and adopted. 



The following gentlemen were elected officers and 

 Council for the Session 1895-96: — 



President: — JOHN Boyd. 



Vice-Presidents:—]. COSMO MELVILL, M.A., F.L.S., 

 P. Cunliffe, Charles Bailey, F.L.S. 



Treasurer: — Mark Stirrup, F.G.S. 



Secretary: — T. SlNGTON. 



Council: — G. H. Broadbent, M.R.C.S., P. CAMERON, 

 Alex. Hodgkinson, M.B., B.Sc, Henry Hyde, Francis 

 Nicholson, F.Z.S., C. Oldham, Thomas Rogers, F. E. 

 Weiss, B.Sc. 



Mr. J. C. Melvill, M.A., F.L.S., exhibited specimens 

 of the Edelweiss ( Leontop odium alpinum, Cass), and its 

 Siberian and Japanese allies. Likewise Himalayan speci- 

 mens of the same, and three related forms from the New 

 Zealand and Tasmanian Alps, and also one species from 

 the Andes of South America. He read a note on the 

 geographical distribution of .the genus, and the altitudes at 

 which it occurs, and likewise exhibited specimens of some 

 of its nearest generic allies. 



Mr. Thos. ROGERS exhibited a series of land and 

 fresh-water shells which he had recently received from the 

 Hawaiian Islands, and made some remarks upon the 

 Conchological fauna of those Islands. The number of 

 species, excluding synonyms and mistakes, is about 350, 



