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The Treasurer then read tlie section in question, pointing out
that it was thei-ein declared that only the Second, Third, and Fourth
Sections of Chapter I. applied to the election of Associates, and
the Fifth Section, requiring a two-thirds majority, was expressly
excluded.
The Rev. R. Ashington Bullen exhibited (1) the egg-capsule
of a Mantis found on a twig of wild Olive, while others occurred in
immense numbei's on blackberry and various shrubs at Brenes,
near Carmona, Spain, February 16th, 1904. Mr. W. F. Kirby
refers it to Mantis religiosa, Linn. ; it is figured in Brunner von
Wattenwyl's 'Prodromus der Europaischen Orthopteren,' pi. 2.
figs. 14 (A, female ; B, egg-capsule ; C, section of B), This author,
however, states that the species which he describes deposit their
capsules on stones ; so far as we observed, however, none were in
that position, but were placed on shrubs and bushes at the edge
of a precipice (barranca). The capsules obtaiued as above are less
elongated and more turgid than in the figures cited. Mr. W. L.
Distant is of opinion that the capsules vary in shape ; the number
of eggs contained is about 30.
(2) A photograph of a cat playing with a snake before killing it,
and calling to her kittens in a loud and peculiar way to come and
share in the sport ; it was snapped by Mr. George Bonsor in 1903,
in the jjrtito of his house in the Necropolis Eomana, Carmoua.
Mr. A. O. Walker brought a branch of Black Currant from
his garden near Maidstone, with the swollen buds indicative of the
destructive mite Erioj/hi/es rihis. A discussion followed, in which
the Chairman, Mr. A. D. Michael, Mr. N. E. Brown, and Mr. E. M.
Holmes took part, Mr. Walker replying.
The General Secretary, Mr. B. Daydon Jackson, then gave an
exhibition and lantern demonstration of " Botanic Illustration from
the 15th to the 20th Centuries," tracing its development from the
earliest herbals to the present time, with an account of the various
methods employed.
The following paper was read :
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" On Bryozoa from Franz-Josef Land." By Arthur William
Waters, F.L.S.
April 7th, 1904.
Prof. Sydney H. Vines, F.E.S., President, in the Chair.
The Minutes of the General Meeting of 17th March having been
read, their confirmation was opposed by Mr. George it. M.
Murray, on a point of order, that inasmuch as the election of
Mr. William Watson as an Associate was not declared at the
meeting of the 18th February, it could not be so declared at a