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Extracts from the Minute- Book of the Linnean Society. 
John A. Hankey, Esq. Davies Gilbert, Esq. 
R. H. Solly, Esq. The Earl of Derby. 
J. E. Bicheno, Esq. Thomas Bell, Esq. 
John Bostock, M.D. Joseph Sabine, Esq. 
Rev. Thomas Rackett, M.A. L. W. Dillwyn, Esq. M.P. 
Robert Brown, Esq. V.P.L.S. William Christy, Jun. Esq. 
Sir W. J. Hooker. William Harrison, Esq. 
John Guillemard, Esq. 
Nov. 15. A Portrait of Archibald Menzies, F.L.S., by Mr. Eddis, was pre- 
sented by the following Fellows: 
N. B. Ward, Esq. William Christy, Jun. Esq. 
S. H. Haslam, Esq. Thomas Bell, Esq. 
Francis Boott, M.D. Sec. L.S. Robert Brown, Esq. V.P.L.S. 
William Yarrell, Esq. Sir W. J. Hooker: 
Richard Taylor, Esq. Under-Sec. L.S. Joseph Hooker, Esq. 
Edward Forster, Esq. V.P.L.S. T. B. Salter, M.D. 
J. J. Bennett, Esq. Dawson Turner, Esq. 
R. H. Solly, Esq. Charles Stokes, Esq. 
E. J. Quekett, Esq. 
Nov. 15. 
1837. 
Feb. 7. 
The Secretary read a Letter from Mr. Nicholson, giving an ac- 
count of a young bird, just fledged, of the Hawfinch (Coccothraustes 
europea) having been picked up from off the ground in a wood at 
Lullingstone Castle, Kent, in the month of June last. The noise 
which it made on being taken up soon brought the parent birds to 
the spot, so that their nest must have been at no great distance, as 
the young bird was unable to fly. Mr. Doubleday has remarked 
that the bird frequently breeds in Epping Forest; and it is perhaps 
owing to its shy habits that the fact of its continuing throughout 
the year and breeding in this country escaped the notice of Latham 
and Montagu. 
Mr. George Luxford, A.L.S. exhibited specimens of Polygonum 
dumetorum and Epipactis purpurata collected by him near Reigate, 
Surrey. 
