SUMMARY OF PROCEEDINGS AT MEETINGS. XI. 



The fourth meeting of the twentieth session was held 

 at the University, on Friday, January 12th, 1906. The 

 President in the chair. 



1. On the motion of the President, the congratulations 



of the Society were conveyed to Mr. H. C. Beasley, 

 a past-President of the Society, on the honour 

 conferred upon him by the Geological Society of 

 London, in the award of the Barlow Jamieson 

 Fund. 



2. Dr. J. H. O'Connell exhibited and described a 



collection of sea- anemones and a British coral 

 (Caryophyllia), which he had living in artificial 

 sea-water. 



3. Prof. Herdman and Mr. J. Johnstone submitted the 



Annual Report of the investigations carried on 

 during 1905, in connection with the Lancashire 

 Sea Fisheries Committee (see " Transactions/' 

 p. 145). 



The fifth meeting of the twentieth session was held at 

 the University, on Friday, February 9th, 1906. The 

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



1. Miss L. R. Thornely communicated a note on a new 



Hydroid, found living on Palinurus vulgaris in the 

 tanks of the Port Erin Aquarium. 



2. Mr. W. Dakin, B.Sc, gave a paper on the formation 



of Coral Atolls, in which the various theories were 

 discussed and the data supplied by recent investi- 

 gations at Funa-futi were reviewed. 



