164 Extracts from the Minute- Book of the Linnean Society. 
1830. 
April 20. 
June 1. 
June 15. 
.1831. 
. Feb. 15. 
Thursdays, from 12 till 4 o'clock, and that the Museum 
will be open during the same hours on Wednesdays 
and Fridays. 
Mr. N. B. Ward, F.L.S., exhibited a remarkable 
specimen of exfoliation of the entire hand and foot, 
which happened five different times in the same person 
from fever. 
Mr. John Gould, A.L.S., exhibited, by permission, 
the Skeleton of the Camelopardalis Giraffa belonging 
to His Majesty. 
Mr. William Pamplin, jun., A.L S., exhibited a 
Fruit of the Carica Papaya, which ripened in a hot- 
house belonging to John Barker, Esq., at Aylesbury. 
Read an extract of a Letter from Mrs. Smith, 
dated Moradabad, July 20th, 1829, to a gentleman 
in Somersetshire, giving an account of a quantity 
of Fishes that fell in a shower of rain at that place. 
Many were observed by Mrs. Smith from the win- 
dow of her residence, springing about on the grass 
immediately after the storm. The letter was accom- 
panied by a drawing taken on the spot, which repre- 
sents a small species of Cyprinus, two inches and a 
quarter in length, green above, silvery white below, 
with a broad lateral line of bright red. 
Mr. Westwood, F.L.S., exhibited drawings of two 
Insects illustrating the connexion between the Coleo- 
pterous families Prionide and Lucanide, in opposition 
to the tarsal system. 
March 
