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b. A Scarlet Ibis (Eudocimus ruber), presented as a skin by Miss E. M. 
Heath, and set-up in the Museum. 
c¢. A Collection of Phanerogams made by Dr. Anthony Southby (olim 
Gapper), of ;Bridgwater, Somerset, between 1822 and [{1837, and 
presented by Miss Southby. 
d. A number of named Seaweeds from Jersey, and unnamed seaweeds 
_ from Australia, presented by Miss Southby. 
e. A living Kestrel ¢ caught the previous day in a trap in a garden 
in Croydon Road, Plaistow: the bird was uninjured, and was liber 
ated in the open-air at the close of the meeting. 
The President exhibited, and described, a set of photographs of Birch 
seeds, some normal and others showing the results of attacks of the gall- 
ansect Oligotrophus be‘ule. He also exhibited a number of lichens collected 
_in Tasmania by Mr. W. A. Weymouth, and based upon them some remarks 
on the distribution of lichens in the Arctic, Antarctic and Temperate zones. 
Reference was made to Hue’s account of the specimens collected by the 
Expédition Antarctique Francaise in 1903-1905, when large blocks of 
rock with lichens growing upon them were collected: from these Hue deter- 
mined 111 species that were truly Antarctic forms, of which 90 were new 
species ; hence, it may be concluded that in Antarctica there is a special 
lichen-flora. Although there is a great similarity in the lichen-genera 
throughout the Temperate Zones, certain genera are specially noticeable 
for their abundance in species and in quantity in certain countries ; as, for 
example, the genus Sticta in Australia, Tasmania and New Zealand. 
The lichens exhibited were :— 
Peltigera polvdactyla. 
Sticta disstmulata, S. fossulata, S. freycinetii, S. orgamea, S. rubella,’ S. 
subcoriacea, S. variabilis. 
Parmelia placortrodioides, P. tenuivima, P. imitatrix. 
|Ramalina leiodea, R. pollinarva. 
Physcia subdexilis. 
Steveocaulon vamulosum. 
Cladonia aggregata, C. retepora. 
Lecidea cinnabarina. 
Melaspilea lentiginosa. 
Caenogonium implexum. 
The President called upon Mr. Hugh Boyd Watt, who read a paper on 
“‘The Anierican Grey Squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis) in Britain,” in illustra- 
tion of which museum-specimens of the Grey Squirrel, as well as of the Com- 
mon Squirrel and of the Continental race, were exhibited. At the close of 
an interesting paper a discussion ensued, in which Messrs. Whitaker, Nichol- 
son and Lambert took part. The author replied to questions and the 
President expressed the thanks of the Meeting to Mr. Watt for his 
communication. 
In view of the lateness of the hour the reading of a paper on “‘ A Third 
Annotated Copy of Warner’s ‘ Plantee Woodfordienses,’ ’’ by the Hon. Sec- 
retary, was postponed. Mr. Thompson announced, amidst applause, that 
Mr. J. J. Holdsworth had presented his copy of the “ Plante,” containing 
Benjamin M. Forster’s MS. annotations, to the Club’s Library. 
The meeting was then declared closed. 
