xx Proceedings. {November joth, 191 5. 



General Meeting, November 30th, 19 15. 



The President, Professor Sydney J. Hickson, M.A., D.Sc, F.R.S., 



in the Chair. 



Councillor Ernest Darwin Simon, Moorlands, Fog La?ie, 

 Didsbury. and Sir Henry Alexander Miers, M.A., D.Sc, 

 F.R.S., Vice-Chancellor of the Victoria University of Man- 

 chester, The University, Manchester, were elected Ordinary 

 Members of the Society. 



Ordinary Meeting, November 30th, 1915. 



The President, Professor Sydney J. Hickson, M. A., D.Sc, F.R.S., 



in the Chair. 



A vote of thanks was accorded the donors of the books 

 upon the table. The recent additions to the Society's 

 Library included : " Flora Capensis," Vol. V., Sect. II., Pt. ii. 

 by Sir W. Thiselton-Dyer (8vo., London, 1915), purchased; 

 " Oudheidkundige Dienst in Nederlandsch-Indie, Ondheidkitndig 

 Verslag," 1915, i e K. (8vo., Batavia, etc., 1915) and Rapporten, 

 van de?i Ondheidkundigen Dienst in Nederlandsch-Indi<i, v 19 14, 

 i e K. (4to., Batavia, etc., 19 15), presented by the Bataviaasch 

 Genootschap van Kunsten en Wetenschappen ; " The Library 

 of Harvard College," by A. C. Potter, 3rd. ed. (8vo., Cambridge, 

 Mass., U.S.A., 19 15), presented by Harvard College Library; 

 and " Archaeologia, v Vol. 18. Pt. I. and Vol. 26 (4to., London, 

 1 815 and 1836), purchased. 



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

 " Further Notes on Pre-Columbian Representations 

 of the Elephant in America." 



These notes were an amplification of the letter published 

 in Nature, November 25, 1915, p. 340. Further examples of 

 representations of the elephant were shown ; and attention was 



