X. PBOCEEDING-S LIVEEPOOL BIOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



The second meeting of the Society was held at Univer- 

 sity College on Friday, 10th November, 1893, Dr. Newton, 

 President, in the chair. 



1. The President (Dr. J. Newton) gave his Presidential 



Address, entitled : — " The Origin of Man — How 

 Derived? His Genealogy and Starting Point, as 

 illustrated by Geology, Biology, History, the early 

 Civilizations and Eeligions." (See "Transactions," 

 p. 1). A vote of thanks to the President, proposed 

 by Prof. Herdman, and seconded by Mr. T. C. 

 Eyley, was unanimously carried. 



2. Mr. K. J. Harvey Gibson, M.A., F.L.S., exhibited 



some anomalous flowers of Sola?ium, and some 

 Micro-fungi. 



The third meeting of the Society was held at Univer- 

 sity College on Friday, 8th December, 1893, Dr. John 

 Newton, President, in the chair. 



1. An exhibition, by Mr. E. J. Harvey Gibson, of photo- 



graphs of plants in the hot-houses of Kew Gardens. 



2. On the invitation of the President, Prof. E. L. Garner 



gave an interesting account of some of his experi- 

 ences while living in a steel cage in the Gaboon 

 country, Africa, for the purpose of studying the 

 habits and sounds of the Anthropoid Apes. He 

 gave a vivid description of the manner of action 

 and gait of the Gorilla and Chimpanzee and dis- 

 tinguished two kinds of each, the two Gorillas 

 being known to the natives as N'jina and N'tyii, 

 and the two Chimpanzees as N'tyigo and Koola- 

 Kamba. In regard to the latter, the N'tyigo is 

 apparently the common Chimpanzee (Troglodytes 

 niger), while Mr. Garner is not satisfied that the 

 Koola-Kamba is the bald Chimpanzee (T. calvus) 

 but thinks that it may be a third species. 



