SUMMARY OF PROCEEDINGS AT MEETINGS. Xl 
The third meeting of the twenty-third session was 
held at the University, on Friday, December 11th, 1908. 
The President in the chair. 
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Mr. EH. Thompson exhibited, with remarks, a 
specimen of Leaf Insect. 
Mr. Douglas Laurie submitted a paper on 
“Mendelism,” and gave an account of certain 
results obtained by him in the colour markings of 
mice, bearing out Mendel’s law. 
The fourth meeting of the twenty-third session was 
held at the University, on Friday, January 15th, 1909. 
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On the motion of the President, seconded by Mr. 
Peeeeebeasicy, and Mr. W. T. Haydon, the 
following Resolution was silently adopted :— 
“That the members of the Liverpool Biological 
Society desire to place on record the loss the 
Society has sustained by the death of Mr. Joseph 
Lomas, and their high appreciation of the work 
accomplished by him in extending knowledge, 
especially in Biology and Geology, and of the 
interest he has taken in the work of the Society 
as President, Member of Council, and valued 
comimbutor to its ‘Proceedings.’ That the 
Ilonorary Secretary be instructed to send a copy 
of this resolution to Mrs. Lomas, together with 
an expression of the deep sympathy of the Society 
with her and her family in their bereavement.” 
Mr. J. Johnstone, B.Sc., submitted the Annual 
Report of the Investigations carried on during 
1908 in connection with the Lancashire Sea 
Fisheries Committee (see ‘‘ Transactions,” p. 117). 
