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degree quite unknown among bilaterally symmetrical animals. 

 The method of branching in Corals and other zoophytes can- 

 not be regarded as a purely vegetative variation, otherwise all 

 zoophytes living under like conditions would be alike, and they 

 are not. The President regarded the discussion as interesting 

 and suggestive. It might lead to some modification of the 

 views expressed in his Address, and some further illustration 

 and explanation of other points. 



Ordinary Meeting, February 8th, 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. The recent accessions to the Society's Library 

 included : ' : Canadian Institute. — General Index to Publications, 

 1852-1Q12" by John Patterson (4to., Toronto, 1914), presented 

 by the Canadian Institute, Toronto : " On the Igneous and Pyi-o- 

 clastic Rocks of the Berzvyn Hills..." by T. H. Cope (8vo., 

 Liverpool, 191 5). presented by the Liverpool Geological Society; 

 and " The British Marine Annelids" by W. C. Mcintosh, Vol. 

 III., Pt. II., Plates, published by the Ray Society (fol., London, 

 1915), purchased. 



Mr. E. L. Rhead, M.Sc.Tech., F.I.C., and Mr. W. C. 

 Jenkins, F.R.A.S., were nominated Auditors of the Society's 

 accounts for the session 1915-16. 



In a communication 0:1 " New Phases of the Con- 

 troversies concerning- the Piltdown Skull," Professor 

 G. Elliot Smith, M.A., M.D., F.R.S., considered the different 

 views that had been recently expressed :( 1 ) that the canine 

 belonged to the upper and not the lower jaw ; (2) that the man- 

 dible was not human, but that of a hitherto unknown species of 

 chimpanzee, which by some unexplained means made its way 

 into England in the Pleistocene period ; (3) that the features 



