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Extracts from the Minute-Book of the Linnean Society. 
March19. A Letter addressed to the Secretary from Charles Stokes, Esq. 
April 2. 
1834. 
March 4. 
April 15, 
& 
May 6. 
F.L.S. was read, on the discovery of milk in the mammae of the Or- 
nithorhynchus of New Holland, by J. M‘Arthur, Esq. of Parramatta. 
Communicated by Captain King, R.N., F.L.S. 
The Secretary announced that Mrs. Dickson had presented to 
the Society the Botanical collections of her late husband James 
Dickson, Esq. F.L.S. 
Read a Description of a new species of Geaster. In a letter ad- 
dressed to the Secretary. By Mr. Robert H. Schomburgk. 
G. Dowovawr. Outer peridium 6- or 8-cleft; lobes lanceolate, 
acute, unequal, recurved; inner peridium sessile, spherical, the 
mouth conical, plaited, fringed at the margin. 
Found by Mr. Schomburgk in a grove of trees near St. Bernard’s 
in the Island of Tortola, and named by him after Dr. Donovan of 
that island. This Fungus is met with in the months of November 
and December. 
A Specimen of Nanodes undulatus in the adult plumage was ex- 
hibited by Mr. William Tucker, being the first of the kind that had 
reached Europe. 
The bird described in the 15th volume of the Society’s Transac- 
tions, and figured in the 2nd volume of Latham’s General History 
of Birds, being in the immature plumage, and differing from the 
adult specimen in wanting “ the round shot-like drops” on the 
throat, and in the less brilliance and beauty of the whole plumage. - 
A paper was read, containing * Observations on some Species of 
Native Mammalia, Birds and Fishes, including additions to the 
British Fauna.” By William Thompson, Esq. Communicated by 
the Secretary. 
The author commenced by stating, that a perusal of the Rey. 
Mr. Jenyns's paper, entitled, * Some Observations on the Common 
Bat of Pennant, with an attempt to prove its identity with the Pi- 
