SUMMARY OF PROCEEDINGS AT MEETINGS. XV. 
The fifth meeting of the fourteenth session was held at 
University College on Friday, February 19th, 1900. The 
President in the Chair. 
], Exhibition of microscopic preparations illustrative of Mr. 
J. Johnstone’s communication on Cardiwm edule. 
2. Mr. J. Johnstone gave an account of the Cockle Fishing 
of Lancashire including a description of the structure 
and minute Anatomy of the common cockle (Cardium 
edule.) (see “ Transactions,” under “ Report on the 
Investigations carried on in 1899 in connection with 
the Lancashire Sea-Fisheries Laboratory, University 
College, Liverpool,” p. 145.) | 
3. Mr. Laveroeck exhibited and described an abnormal] pear. 
The sixth meeting of the fourteenth session was held at 
University College on Friday, March 19th, 1900. The 
President in the chair. 
1. Prof. Harvey Gibson exhibited plans and gave a 
description ofthe proposed new Botanical Laboratories, 
shortly to be erected in connection with University 
College. 
2. Mr.-H.C. Robinson exhibited with remarks a collection 
ot Australian Birds with nests and eggs. 
3. Prof. Harvey Gibson laid before the Society the memoir 
on “Codium tomentosum,’ by Miss Helen P. Auld 
and himself, (see “ Transactions,” p. 326). 
The seventh meeting of the fourteenth session was held 
at University College on Friday, May 11th,1900. Mr. I. 
C. Thompson in the chair. 
1. Sympathetic reference was made from the chair to the 
loss the Society and science generally had sustained 
