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that the roots of the mature plants, when cut, are in the former species of 

 a whitish colour and in the latter of a bright yellow, enabling the two to be 

 readily distinguished. 



A paper was then read by Sir John Lubbock, Bart., M.P., F.R.S., " On 

 Stipules and the Protection of Buds." A discussion followed, in which the 

 Rev. G. Henslow, Mr. A. W. Bennett, Prof. Marshall Ward, and Mr. John 

 Fraser took part. 



Before the meeting adjourned, the President announced that a bust of 

 Charles Waterton, the Yorkshire naturalist, and author of ■ Wanderings in 

 South America,' had been presented to the Society by the Trustees of the 

 late Mrs. Pitt Byrne {nee Busk). This bust was executed in 1865 (the 

 year in which he died, at the age of eighty-three), by the late Mr. Waterhouse 

 Hawkins. It is an excellent likeness, and the only bust of him in existence. 

 The only accessible portrait of him is a small engraving by Adlard, which 

 forms a frontispiece to the third volume of the • Essays on Natural History,' 

 from an original oil painting by Charles W. Peale, made in Philadelphia in 

 1824, when Waterton was in his forty-second year. A comparison of this 

 portrait with the bust shows a remarkable correspondence, allowing for the 

 forty years which elapsed between the two sittings. 



June 21st. — Mr. C. B. Clarke, F.R.S., President, in the chair. 



Messrs. F. W. Hildyard and H. A. Cummins were admitted, and 

 Mr. W. Gardner was elected a Fellow. 



Mr. G. Brebner exhibited and made remarks upon specimens of 

 Scaphospora speciosa, Kjellm., a seaweed new to Britain, describing, with 

 the aid of lantern-slides, the structure and mode of fructification in this and 

 other allied Algse. 



Mr. J. R. Jackson exhibited the cone of a stone pine, Pinus pinea, Linn., 

 which had been picked up by the Comte de Paris in the Coto del Rey, 

 Seville, and which had sprouted and continued to grow for a month 

 afterwards. This peculiarity, which had been often noticed in the larch, 

 was said to be of rare occurrence in the pine. 



Mr. Thomas Christy exhibited and made remarks upon a small-berried 

 coffee-plant from Inhanbane, East Africa, somewhat similar to a variety 

 from Sierra Leone and other parts of the West Coast. It was said to be 

 valued for its fine aromatic bitter taste which made it useful for flavouring 

 beans and other material ground up and sold as coffee. 



Mr. A. B. Rendle gave an abstract of a paper upon a collection of 

 plants from East Equatorial Africa, brought home by Dr. J. W. Gregory 

 and Rev. H. Taylor, amongst which were several new species. 



A paper followed, by the President, "On Tabulation Areas," in which 

 the views of Dr. A. R. Wallace and others on geographical distribution 

 were discussed, and the best mode of tabulating results considered. After 

 some discussion, the meeting adjourned to November 1st. 



