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Melvill, M.A., F.L.S., and resolved unanimously, "That the 

 Secretaries be desired to write to Mrs. Hick and express to 

 her and her family the sympathy and condolence of the 

 Society in their heavy loss." 



Mr. J. H. Ashworth, B.Sc, Owens College, read a paper 

 entitled, "The Structure and Contents of the Tubers 

 of Anthoceros tuberosus." 



The paper is printed in full in the Memoirs. 



Professor Weiss pointed to the biological interest of 

 the tubers as illustrating the adaptation of a liverwort, a 

 plant usually associated with a damp climate, to a dry 

 locality. The presence of oil, together with a nitrogenous 

 food-material in the cells, too, was of more usual occurrence 

 than granules of a starchy nature, such as those described by 

 Ruge. 



Mr. James Cosmo Melvill exhibited a number of small 

 Marine Mollusca from the Loyalty Islands, many of which 

 were new to Science. 



