PROCEEDINGS 
OF THE 
vol. ii. January, 1867. No. 1 
GENERAL MEETING. 
Thursday, Jan. 3rd, 1867.— Mr. W. Sanders, F.R.S., F.G.S., 
President, in the chair. 
The Hon. Secretary called the attention of the Society to the two 
donations which had been noticed in the report of the meeting of the 
Botanical Section, at vol. I. p. 97, of the Proceedings. 
The Hon. Treasurer, Mr. W. W. Stoddart, rose to make some 
remarks, not, he said, in a grumbling spirit, but with the hope that a full 
report of what he said would be given in the Proceedings, and so the 
attention of all members would be drawn to it. He regretted to have to 
complain of the enormous difficulty he had, even with the aid of a paid 
collector, in obtaining the subscriptions, and more especially the extra 
2s. 6d. which had been resolved upon at the October and November 
meetings. Last year 600 visits were paid to obtain the five-shilling sub- 
scription, and even then there was a large amount in arrear ; this year 
more than 1,000 visits had been paid for the extra 2s. 6d. alone, and he 
looked forward to having to pay about 1 ,600 visits this year, if the same 
unwillingness to pay were shown. This ought not to be in their society, 
which did not number 300 members. He regretted also to be obliged to 
say that some members had even refused to pay the increased amount . 
Each member cost more than 6s. yearly, far the printing, postage, and de- 
livery of the Proceedings in their new form. He sincerely hoped that 
after these remarks had been read by members, he should have no more 
difficulty in collecting his money. 
Mr. W. L. Carpenter exhibited some very large and thin sheets of 
glue, which had become detached from the interior of a cask used for 
holding paraffin oil. The glue had apparently been rolled about in the 
empty cask while hot, and had subsequently separated from the wood. In 
some places minute portions of the woody fibre had been torn olf, but on 
