LINNBAN SOCIETYT OF LONDOIir, VU 



April 21st, 1857. 

 Thomas Bell, Esq., President, in the Chair. 



The following alteration in the Bye-Laws, proposed bj the 

 Council on the 17th of March, viz. 



^' That in Chapter XIII. Section 1, wherever the word 



* Tuesday' occurs, ,the word * Thursday' be substituted in its 



place," 

 having been hung up in the common Meeting-room of the 

 Society, and read by the President at the two last successive 

 General Meetings, was put to the ballot and confirmed by the 

 Pellows. 



The effect of this alteration is to change the days of the 

 Society's Meetings from the first and third Tuesdays to the first 

 and third Thursdays of the month. 



Bead, the conclusion of Prof. Owen's Memoir " On the Classi- 

 fication of the Mammalia,^^ commenced on the 17th of February. 

 (See " Zoological Proceedings," vol. ii. p. 1.) 



May 5th, 1857. 



Thomas Bell, Esq., President, in the Chair. 



George David Pollock, Esq., was elected a Fellow, and Prof. 

 J. Van der Hoeven and Dr. Charles Frederic Meisner, Foreign 

 Members. 



Bead, first, a Memoir "On two new Genera of Brazilian Plants;" 

 by George Bentham, Esq., F-L.S. (See "Transactions," vol. ii. 

 p. 125.) 



Bead, secondly, a Paper " On the Classification of the Warm- 

 blooded Verfehralia-;' by William M'Donald, Esq., M.D., F.L.S. 



Bead, thirdly, a "Note on some Suprasoriferous Ferns ;" by 

 Thomas Moore, Esq., F.L.S. (See "Botanical Proceedings," vol.ii.) 



