Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London - University Library

lO PROCEEDINGS OF THE
later meeting ; this being seconded by Mr. James Groves, led to
a prolonged discussion, in which Mr. A. O. Hume, Mr. Henry
Groves, Dr. A. tSmith Woodward, Eev. T. R. K. Stebbing,
Mr. G. S. Boulger, Mr. F. Crisp, Mr. Thomas Christy, Mr. E.
M. Holmes, Dr. D. H. Scott, Mr. Gilbert Christy, and Mr. J.
Britten, joined. By consent, the votiing by show of hands was
taken to be for or against confirmation of the Minutes ; those in
favour of confirmation 14, against 17 (one more being invalid),
out of 47 JFellows present. The Minutes were accordingly not
signed.
Dr. John Don Fisher Gilchrist, Mr. William Philip James
Le Brocq, and Mr. Charles Edward Pearson were elected, and the
Rev. Henry Thomas Spufford and Mr. John Lewis Bonhote were
admitted Fellows of the Society.
The President, on behalf of Prof. Isaac Batley Baleoue,
presented a Gold Medal recently struck in commemoration of his
father. Prof. John Hutton Balfour ; a special vote of thanks was
accorded by acclamation.
Sir Joseph Hookek forwarded for acceptance by the Society a
photograph of an etching by Mrs. Dawson Turner, from a drawing
by J. S. Cotman, of her husband, who was a Fellow of the Linnean
Society for fifty years (from 1797 to 1858). For this gift a special
vote of thanks was passed.
Mr. E. P. Stebbing exhibited lantern-slides of the metamorphoses
of Clania Crameri, a Psychid moth from the Madras Presidency,
showing its use of its food-plant, Casuarina eq^uisetifolia, in the
making of its protective case.
Mr, F. Enock displayed a series of more than fifty slides of
Natural Colour Photography of living insects and flowers by the
Sanger-Shepherd three-colour process ;
remarks on the results.
the President adding a few
The following paper was read :
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"The Morphology and Anatomy of the Stem of the Genus
LycojJodium." By Charles Edward Jones, F.L.S.
April 21st, 1904.
Prof. Sydney H. Vines, F.E.S,, President, in the Chair
The Minutes of the last Meeting were read and confirmed.
The Pbesidenx then referred to the fact that the Minutes of the
Meeting on March 17 had not been approved at the Meeting on