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investigations to the first division of the embryo-sac nucleus, and had 
found it to agree essentially with that of the pollen-mother-cell. 
The President said that it was a matter for regret that the rules 
of the Society prevented Miss Sargant from being present to state 
her own case, but it could hardly have suffered much with so able an 
advocate as Dr. Scott ; she could not possibly be in better hands. He 
(the President) should not venture to express his own opinion upon a 
point of botanical embryology upon which two such competent judges as 
Dr. Scott and Prof. Farmer differed ; but whatever the issue might 
eventually be, he thought all would agree that Miss Sargant’s work was 
well worth putting before the world, and that they, as a Society, were 
greatly indebted to her for her paper, and to Dr. Scott for the able and 
interesting manner in which he had brought it before the meeting. 
The thanks of the Society were then voted to Miss Sargant, and to 
Dr. Scott, Prof. Farmer, and Mr. Moore for the part they had taken in 
the discussion of the subject. 
The following Instruments, Objects, &c., were exhibited:— 
Mr. T. Comber : — Lantern Photographs illustrating his paper. 
Mr. R. Macer : — Melicerta ringens and Stephanoceros Eichornii. 
Mr. J. Swift : — Nelson Microscope-Lamp; Wales Microscope, with 
new mechanical stage. 
New Fellows. — The following was elected an Ordinary Fellow : — 
Dr. Robert R. Andrews. 
