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this confused jumble of practices became assimilated and 

 "Americanised " in their new home across the Pacific, as the 

 result of the domination of the great uncultured aboriginal 

 populations by small bands of more cultured foreigners. 



Ordinary Meeting, January nth, 1916. 



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. These included : Svensk Nahcrskyddsbibliografi, 

 ipoi-zpi2" (8vo. Uppsala, etc., 191 3), presented by the K. 

 Svenska Vetenskapskademie, Uppsala; " Triangulation in 

 Alaba?7ia and Mississippi" by W. F. Reynolds (Special 

 Publication, No. 24) (4to., Washington, D.C., 191 5), presented 

 by the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey, Washington ; 

 and "Coptic Cloths" by Laura E. Start (4to., [Halifax], 19 14) 

 (Bankfield Museum Notes, 2nd Series, No. 4), presented by the 

 Authoress. 



The President referred to the death of Sir Henry 

 Enfield Roscoe, LL.D., D.C.L., F.R.S. Sir Henry Roscoe 

 was elected an Ordinary Member of the Society in 1858; was 

 President in 1882-4; and was elected an Honorary Member in 

 1897. 



The President exhibited a large Conch-shell and made a 

 few remarks on the use of such shells as musical instruments. 



He afterwards delivered an address entitled "Animal 

 symmetry and the differentiation of species." 



This Address is printed in full in the Memoirs. 



