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generations who could not understand Leonardo's meaning as we 

 can understand it now. 



After remarks by Mr. ^Y. Whitaker, Prof. W. W. Watts, 

 Mr. AY. Dale, and the Peesidext, a cordial vote of thanks was 



unanimously accorded to the Lecturer. 



April 12th, 1922. 



Prof. A. C. Sewaed, Sc.D., F.E.S., President, and afterwards 

 Dr. H. H. Thomas, Yice-President, in the Chair. 



The List of Donations to the Library was read. 



The following communications were read: — 



1. ' Oligocene Mosquitoes in the British Museum, with a 

 Summary of oui* present Knowledge concerning Fossil Culicidse.' 

 By F. W. Edwards, B.A. (Communicated by the Secretary.) 



2. ' On a Collection of Carboniferous Plants from Peru.' By 

 Albert Charles Seward, Sc.D., F.R.S., Pres.C.S. 



3. ' The Geological History of the Genus Stratiofes : an Account 

 of the Evolutionary Changes which have occurred within the 

 Genus during^ the Tertiary and Quaternary Eras.' Bv Miss 

 Marjorie Elizabeth Jane Chandler. (Communicated by Mrs. E. M. 

 Keid, B.Sc, F.L.S., F.G.S.) 



Specimens were exhibited by the Geological Department of the 

 British ]\[useum (Natm-al History), and specimens and lantern- 

 slides by the Author, in illustration of Mr. F. W. Edw^ards's 

 paper. 



Specimens and lantern-slides were also exhibited in illustration 

 of Prof. A. C. Seward's and Miss M. E. J. Chandler's papers. 



May 10th, 1922. 



Prof. A. C. Sewaed, Sc.D., F.E.S., President, 

 in the Chair. 



William Ernest Victor Abraham, B.Sc, Xyounghla (Upper 

 Burma); Ernest Batchelor, c/o King, King & Co., Bombay; 

 Edmund Ernest Stockwell Brown, Wisteria House, Wisteria Eoad, 

 Lee, S.E. 13 ; George Tmline Button, 8 Marston Ferry Eoad, 



