XX 



June 9, 1904 



Professor J. W. JUDD, O.B., Vice-President, in the Chair. 



Mr. Edward Merrick, Professor Charles J. Joly, and Dr. Hugh 

 Marshall were admitted into the Society. 



A List of the Presents received was laid on the table, and thanks 

 ordered for them. 



The following Papers were read : — 



I. " Notes on the Statolith Theory of Geotropism. (I) Experiments 

 on the Effects of Centrifugal Force. (II) The Behaviour of 

 Tertiary Boots." By F. Darwin, For. Sec, B.S., and Miss 

 D. F. M. Pertz. 



II. " The Fossil Flora of the Culm Measures of North- West Devon, 

 and the Palseobotanical Evidence with regard to the Age of 

 the Beds." By E. A. Newell Arber. Communicated by 

 Professor T. McKenny Hughes, F.R.S. 



III. " On the Structure and Affinities of Palseodiscus and Agelacrinus." 



By W. K. Spencer. Communicated by Professor W. J. 

 Sollas, F.R.S. 



IV. "On the Ossiferous Cave- Deposits of Cyprus, with Descriptions 



of the Remains of Elephas Cypriotes" By Miss D. M. A. Bate. 

 Communicated by Dr. H. Woodward, F.R.S. 



V. "On the Physical Relation of Chloroform to Blood." By 

 Dr. A. D. Waller, F.R.S. 



VI. "Contributions to the Study of the Action of Sea-Snake 



Venoms." By Sir Thomas R. Fraser, F.R.S., and Major 

 R. H. Elliot, I.M.S. 



VII. "On the Action of the Venom of Bungarus cmruleus (the 



Common Krait)." By Major R. H. Elliot, I.M.S., W. C. 

 Sillar, and G. S. Carmichael. Communicated by Sir 

 Thomas R. Fraser, F.R.S. 



VIII. " On the Combining Properties of Serum Complements, and on 

 Complementoids." By Professor R. Muir and C. H. 

 Browning. Communicated by Sir J. Burdon Sanderson, 

 Bart., F.R.S. 



