SUMMARY OF PROCEEDINGS AT MEETINGS. XI 



The fifth meeting of the twenty-seventh session was 

 held at the University, on Friday, February 14th, 1913. 

 The President in the chair. 



1. Prof. Cole, D.Sc, of University College, Pleading, 

 lectured before the Society on " The Early Days of 

 Comparative Anatomy" (see " Transactions," p. 143). 



The sixth meeting of the twenty-seventh session was 

 held at the University, on Friday, March 14th, 1913. 

 The President in the chair. 



1. Dr. C. J. Macalister submitted an interesting paper 

 on the effect of allantoin in promoting cell activity 

 in organisms and in which the effects of injections 

 in Hyacinths were described in detail. 



The seventh meeting of the twenty-seventh session 

 was held at the University, on Friday, May 16th, 1913. 

 The President in the chair. 



1. Mr. A. Scott, A.L.S., exhibited a series of plates of 



parasitic Copepoda, to be shortly published by ihe 

 Bay Society. 



2. Mr. Erik Hamilton exhibited a small tooth of some 



elephant, possibly a Mammoth, from the peat bed 

 at Leasowe. 



3. Mr. William Piddell, M.A., exhibited three rare 



species of Schizopods, new to the L.M.B.C. district, 

 which, although bottom-living forms had been 

 taken in surface tow-nets. 



4. Mr. H. G. Jackson, M.Sc, submitted his L.M.B.C. 



Memoir on the Hermit Crab (see " Transactions," 

 p. 495). 



