Extracts from the Council Minute-Book of the Linnean Society. 569 
June 26. 
August 7. 
1836. 
Nov. 1. 
VOL, XVII. 
“An example of disinterestedness has been exhibited by the 
Company which has already reflected, and will continue to reflect 
deserved honour upon them and upon the country, and which cannot 
fail to diffuse a spirit of emulation throughout the world.” 
The Address voted at the last Meeting to the Court of Directors 
of the Honourable East India Company, which had been engrossed 
on vellum, was signed by the President and the other members of 
Council present, and the seal of the Society was then affixed to it. 
The Secretary reported that on June 26th the President, Mr. 
Brown, Mr. Forster, General Hardwicke, Dr. Nicholl, Mr. Bentham, 
Mr. Solly and himself waited on the Chairman and Deputy Chair- 
man of the Court of Directors of the East India Company with the 
Address voted on the 23rd. 
The Secretary reported that he had received a letter from Dr. 
Horsfield, dated September 27th, in which it was stated, that in 
obedience to an order of the Court of Directors of the East India 
Company, he had sent to the Society Dr. Wallich’s collection of 
plants and fruits in spirits in 172 bottles, and Mr. Royle’s herba- 
rium in 130 bundles; the plants of Mr. Royle to be distributed by 
the Society in the name of the East India Company as the plants of 
Dr. Wallich were distributed. 
