REPORT OF THE COUNCIL. 7 
The Society has held four Ordinary Meetings and one 
Field Meeting since its foundation, at each of which there 
has been an average attendance of over fifty Members. 
At the conclusion of the last session there were ninety- 
three Ordinary and Student Members. 
The following is a summary of the proceedings at the 
Ordinary Meetings :— 
22nd January, 1887. 
1. Inaugural Address, by Professor W. MITCHELL 
Banks, M.D., F.R.C.S., President. 
2. Recent Discoveries in connection with the Pineal 
and Pituitary Bodies of the Brain, by Professor 
W. A. Herpman, D.Sc., Vice-President. 
12th February. , 
1. On the Myside of Liverpool Bay, by A. O. WALKER, 
-1,.8. 
2. On some Points in the Anatomy of Alcyonidiwm 
gelatinosum, by J. Lomas, Assoc. N.8.8. 
3. Remarks on the new translation of Sach’s Text- 
book of Botany, by R. J. Harvey Grsson, M.A., 
Secretary. 
4. On Boring Insect Larve, by J. W. Euuis, L.R.C.P. 
5. Exhibition and Description of Physiological Appa- 
ratus, by F. C. Larkin, M.R.C.S. 
12th March. 
1. On some New and Little Known Copepoda of 
Liverpool Bay, by I. C. THompson, F.R.M.5., 
Treasurer. 
2. On the Classification of Anatomical Abnormalities, 
by A. WARD Couutns, M.B., C.M. 
3. Notes on Floral Morphology—No. I, by R. J. 
HARVEY Gisson, M.A., Secretary. 
