EBPOETS OP MEETINGS. 



07 '7 



On Jan. 5t,h, 1888, Mr. G. Munro Smith, M.E.C.S., L.R.C.P., 

 read a paper, entitled " Wine-drinking, and its Effects on 

 the Human Body." Tins is printed in ftill at po,ge 329. Mr. 

 S. H. Swayne, M.E.C.S., then showed a ripe frnit of the 

 " Fyrus Japovdca" picked in his garden a month previously. 



At the 24()tli General Meeting, hold on Feb. 2nd, Col. 

 Arthur M. Jones gave a lecture on " The Hybridization and 

 Crossing of Perns." This is printed at page 339. Mr. Alfred 

 E. Hudd, E.S.A., exhibited a "Small Cabbage Butterfly" 

 (Pj'ens lUipn) caught on Jan. 29th in Clifton Vale. This 

 spocIoH rarely omej-gos from the chrysalis before the end of 

 March. 



On March Ist Mr. C. K. B,udgo, M.E,.C.S., L.R.C.P., read 

 a paper on "British Shore-fishes and their Habits." Mr. H. 

 Charbonnior then exhibited two preserved specimens, viz. — 



(1) an almost white specimen of the common Greenfinch, and 



(2) a " Cross " between a Rabbit and a Hare, which had beeji 

 lately shot in Yorkshire. 



At the mooting on April 5th, Prof. Lloyd Morgan, F.G.S., 

 road a paper on " Natural Selection and Elimination." which 

 will be found at page 273. 



The 2Gth Anniial Mooting was hold on May 3rd; and 

 after the Report of the Council, tho Balance-shoot, and the 

 Financial Report had been road and adopted. Dr. Ramsay 

 was elected an Honorary Member, and the otficors of the 

 Society for the ensuing year wore appointed. Dr. Burder, 

 E.R.Mot.Soo., T-oad a j)apor on " Tho Illumination of tho 

 Ecdipsed Moon." This is printed in full at page 355. 



PAUL A. COBBOLD, 



Hon. lieporting Sec. 



ARTHUR B. PROWSE, 



lately ITon. lieportinq Sec. 



