Minutes of Proceedings. xxxv 



La Feuille des Jeunes Naturalistes, Nos. 319, 320, 321, Catalogue 



de la Bibliotheque, XX., XXI., fasc. 

 The Journal of the Manchester Geographical Society, Nos. 4, 6, 



Vol. XII. 

 Memoirs and Proceedings of the Manchester Literary and Philo- 

 sophical Society, Vol. XLL, Part 3, 1896-97. 

 Do., Complete List of the Members and Officers. 

 Vierteljahrsschrift d. Naturforschenden Gesellschaft in Zurich, 



Part 1, 1897. 

 Actes de la Societe Scientifique du Chili, Vol. V., Part 5, 1895 ; 



Vol. VI., Parts 2, 3, 1896. 

 Annales de la Faculte des Sciences de Marseilles, Vol. VI., Parts 



4, 5, 6 ; Vol. VIII., Parts 1, 2, 3, 4. 

 Bulletin de l'Academie Imperiale des Sciences de St. Petersbourg, 



Fifth Series, Vol. VI. , No. 3, 1897. 

 (La Fumagina del Cafeto.) 

 Instituto Fisico-Geofrafico Nacional, Costa Eica, 1881-96, 1897, 



San Jose. 

 Eevista del Museo de la Plata, Vol. VII., Part 2, 1896. 

 Boletin Mensual del Observatorio Meteorologico Central de Mexico, 



1897. 

 Johns Hopkins University Circulars, Vol. VIII. , Nos. 73, 74 ; 



Vol. XVI., Nos. 129, 130. 1897. 

 Koyal Society of Edinburgh, Vols. X.-XXI. 



The President called the attention of members to the handsome 

 donation of the Royal, Society of Edinburgh, which sent their 

 Transactions from Vol. VIII. to XXI. inclusive. This was a very 

 valuable addition to the library of the Society. 



Seven members w T ere nominated for election at the next meeting, 

 viz. : — Dr. F. D. Brown (Maritzburg), Ed. G. Alston (Carnarvon), 

 Dr. Brauns (Port Elizabeth), Dr. J. F. Marais (Stellenbosch), G. A. 

 K. Marshall, (Salisbury), C. N. Barker (Durban), and C. Stewart 

 (Cape Town). 



The President informed the Society that the number of members 

 on the roll was now one hundred. 



Dr. F. Purcell exhibited some parasitic barnacles taken from the 

 two whales recently captured in Table and False Bays. One of 

 these barnacles, called Tubicinella, has the shape of a tube about 

 one inch and a quarter long and half an inch in diameter, and occurs 

 entirely embedded in the skin of the whale, while another kind, 

 known as the coronet barnacle (Coronula diaclema) only adheres to 

 the outer surface. In the latter case the shell of the parasite, which 

 may attain a diameter of two inches, is provided with eighteen deep 



