xxiv Proceedings. {January 25th, 1916. 



Ordinary Meeting, January 25th, 19 16. 



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 : '" A Revision of the Ichneu- 

 monidae...Brit. Mus. (Nat. Hist.);' Pt. IV., by Claude Morley 

 (8vo., London, 1915), " A Guide to the Fossil Remains of Man.., 

 Brit. Mus. (Nat. Hist.)" (8vo., London, 1915), and "Instructions 

 for Collectors, No. 12, Worms" by H. A. Baylis (8vo, London, 

 19 1 5), presented by the Trustees of the British Museum (Nat. 

 Hist.). 



Professor F. E. Weiss, D.Sc, F.L.S., drew attention to 

 the death in November last year of Count Solms-Laubach, 

 who was elected an honorary member of the Society in 1892. 

 Count Solms was born in 1842, and came of one of the most 

 ancient of German families. He was Professor of Botany at 

 the University of Gottingen, and subsequently at that of Stras- 

 burg, from which post he resigned a few years ago. He was a 

 man of wide interests, and had contributed to the advance of 

 many sides of botanical science by his investigations. Latterly 

 his interests centred largely in Paleobotany, and probably his 

 introduction to Palaeophytology, of which the Clarendon Press 

 has issued an English translation, is the most important of his 

 more recent publications. Count Solms was a man of un- 

 assuming character who had many staunch friends in this 

 country. 



Professor William H. Lang, M.B., D.Sc, F.R.S., ex- 

 hibited a dirty paper-like substance which he said was composed 

 of unbranched filaments of Algae — probably two species — and 

 which had been found by Professor Sydney J. Hickson, on 

 the margin of a small pond in North Wales. The material, 

 however, had dried up, leaving only the cell walls. 



Dr. H. F. Coward and Mr. F. Bailey showed "A simple 

 experiment illustrating the causes of luminosity of 

 coal-gas flames." 



