PATENT 
GRANTING AND ASSIGNING 
ARMS, CREST, AND SUPPORTERS, 
TO 
THE LINNEAN SOCIETY OF LONDON. 
To ALL AND SINGULAR to whom these Presents shall 
come, Sir Isaac Heard Knight, Garter Principal King of Arms, 
Thomas Lock Esquire, Clarenceux King of Arms, and George 
Harrison Esquire, Norroy King of Arms, send Greeting : 
Whereas Alexander M 6 Leay Esquire hath by Letter represented 
unto the Most Noble Charles Duke of Norfolk, Earl Marshal 
and Hereditary Marshal of England, that the King's Most Excel- 
lent Majesty hath been graciously pleased by his Royal Charter 
under the Great Seal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain 
and Ireland, bearing Date the Twenty-sixth Day of March last, 
to incorporate several of His Subjects into one Body Politic and 
Corporate, by the Name of " The Linnean Society of 
London," for the Cultivation of the Science of Natural History 
in all its Branches, and more especially of the Natural History 
of Great Britain and Ireland ; and there being in the said Charter, 
a Clause, granting perpetual Succession and a Common Seal to 
the said Society, he therefore, as Secretary to the said Society, 
requested on the Part of the Council thereof, the Favour of His 
Grace to issue his Warrant to Garter and the other Kings of 
Arms 
