XXXV. Extracts from the CouNciu MiNvTE-Boox of the Linnean Society 
1832. 
of Lonpon. 
June 23. THE President laid before the Council a letter addressed to his 
Lordship by the Chairman and Deputy Chairman of the Honourable 
Court of Directors of the East India Company, as follows : 
* My Lord, “ East India House, June 19th, 1832. 
* The Court of Directors of the East India Company have within 
the last two years caused to be distributed to various bodies in this 
country and in Europe, interested in the promotion of science, be- 
tween seven and eight thousand species of plants, collected by cele- 
brated naturalists in the Company's service during a series of years 
in India. 
“ The object being attained for which the originals of these speci- 
mens have been placed with Dr.Wallich in Frith-street, the Court of 
Directors feel that this collection may not be an unacceptable ad- 
dition to the Museum of the Linnean Society of London, which 
already possesses the Herbarium of the celebrated Linnzeus. We have 
therefore the honour, at the instance of the Court of Directors, and 
in the name of the East India Company, to proffer through your 
Lordship for the acceptance of the Linnean Society, the Collection 
in question; and should the Council of the Society be pleased to 
give effect to the intentions of the Court, the necessary directions 
will be given to Dr. Wallich to transfer the Collection to the party 
who may be authorized by the Council to receive the same. 
* We have the honour to be, 
* My Lord, 
* Your Lordship’s most obedient humble Servants, 
(Signed) * Joun G. RAvENsHAW, 
* C. MAJORIBANKS." 
« 'The Lord Stanley, M.P. 
*! &c, &c, &c." 
