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BOTANICAL SECTION. 
Friday, January 18th, 1867. — Mr. A. Leipner, President of the 
Section, in the chair. 
This was the annual meeting for the purpose of passing the accounts 
and electing officers for the ensuing year. The attendance was small. The 
accounts showed a balance in hand, and on the motion of the secretary, a 
donation of a guinea was voted to the library fund of the Parent Society. 
The Sectional officers, Mr. A. Leipner, the President, and Mr. T. 
Henry Yabbicom, the Hon. Secretary, were then re-elected, with thanks 
for their services for the past year. 
The remainder of the evening was spent in preparing specimens for the 
Society's herbarium. 
GEOLOGICAL SECTION. 
Thursday, Jan. 24th, 1867— Mr. W. Sanders, F.R.S., F.G.S., 
President of the Section and of the Society, in the chair. 
The accounts of the Section for the year 1866 were read and passed, 
showing a small balance in hand, from which it was agreed to give a do- 
nation of one guinea to the Library Fund of the Parent Society. 
The Hon. Secretary, Mr. Ashmead, made some remarks upon the state 
of the Section, from which it appeared that the number of resignations 
was balanced by the number of new members elected, the present . number 
being 23. A list of the papers contributed, and of the geological walks 
taken during the year, was read, and it was mentioned that the 
Geological Magazine had been regularly circulated amongst the members. 
Major Thomas Austin, F.G.S., then read the following note on the 
cast of Camorocystitis punctatus in the Institution — 
ct On a careful examination of the cast of the so-called Camorocystitis punctatus, 
I have no hesitation in ascribing the curious external appearance as exhibited on 
the specimen to the labours of coral polypes, which have affixed their cells on to 
some substance below, probably the body of a Crinoid, but of this we have no 
positive proof. The column is undoubtedly that of a Crinoid, as are also the rays, 
but the external envelope on the intermediate object in every particular repudiates 
the idea of its belonging to the Crinoidea. In all known Crinoids the lateral 
plates near the centro-dorsal plate are invariably larger than those near the ventral 
portion, while in this specimen the reverse of this is the case, the lateral body 
plates being smaller below, and gradually increasing in size as they approach 
the rays, a character quite at variance with all previous observations, and as may 
be seen in the two specimens of Periechocrinus on the table. That the body of a 
Crinoid lies beneath the incrusting coral (Michelinia) I do not deny, but judging 
