SUMMARY OF PROCEEDINGS AT MEETINGS. XI. 



The fourth meeting of the nineteenth session was held 

 at the University, on Friday, January 13th, 1905. The 

 President in the chair. 



1. Mr, H. C. Beasley exhibited some canine teeth taken 



from a portion of a skull, found on the Leasowe 

 shore. 



2. Mr. J. A. Clubb communicated a note on the 



occurrence of variation in the number of spines of 

 the first dorsal fin of Gobi us minutus. 



3. Mr. -J. -Johnstone submitted the Annual Report of the 



investigations carried on during 1904, in connec- 

 tion with the Lancashire Sea Fisheries Committee 

 (see " Transactions," p. 181). 



The fifth meeting of the nineteenth session was held at 

 the University, on Friday, February 10th. 1905. The 

 President in the chair. 



1. Dr. \Y. E. Hoyle, Director of the Manchester Museum, 

 delivered a lecture on " Recent Researches on the 

 Cephalopoda." The Lecturer gave an interesting 

 account of many points in the minute anatomy of 

 some of the cuttlefishes, and described some remark- 

 able and previously unknown organs discovered in 

 specimens taken by Prof. Herdman off Ceylon. A 

 vote of thanks, proposed by Prof. Herdman and 

 seconded by Mr. Clubb, was unanimously passed. 



The sixth meeting of the nineteenth session was held 

 at the University, on Friday, March 17th, 1905. The 

 President in the chair. Bv invitation of the Council a 



