Xll. PEOCEEDINGS LIVEEPOOL BIOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



The fifth meeting of the tenth session was held at 

 University College on Friday, February 14th, 1896. The 

 President in the chair. 



1. In the Zoology Laboratory, among other exhibits was a 



form of photographic camera adapted for taking 

 photographs of living algse in rock pools, and used 

 by the Kev. T. S. Lea at Port Erin. 



2. Rev. T. S. Lea gave an interesting exhibition of an 



excellent series of these photographs. 



3. Dr. H. 0. Forbes laid before the Society a paper on the 



evidence in favour of the former existence of an 

 Antarctic Continent. He drew some forcible argu- 

 ments from the distribution of both animal and 

 plant life at present prevailing in the extremities of 

 the existing continents of Australia, Africa and S. 

 America, and mainly on the evidence of this 

 distribution he showed an outline map of the 

 possible land connections which may at one time 

 have prevailed. An interesting discussion followed 

 in which Prof. Herdman, Mr. Lomas, Mr. Fitzpatrick 

 and others took part. Various points of Dr. Forbes, 

 paper were freely criticised, and it was generally 

 agreed that a greater knowledge of the depth of 

 the sea in the area involved was required. 



The sixth meeting of the tenth session was held in 

 University College on Friday, March 13th, 1896. The 

 Vice-President (Prof. Herdman) in the chair. 



1. In the Zoology Laboratory, Mr. I. C. Thompson 



exhibited a form of incandescent gas light suitable 

 as a microscopic lamp. 



2. Mr. Alfred 0. Walker contributed a paper on the 



proportion of genera to species in certain localities, 



