LINNEAN SOCIETY OF LONDON. V 



February 17tli, 1857. 



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



Vaughan Henry Alexander Holberton, Esq., was elected a 

 Fellow. 



Eead, first, a " Note on the so-called perforations of Bhynco- 

 nella;'' by W. B. Carpenter, Esq., M.D., F.E.S., F.L.S. 



Bead, secondly, " Description of a new species of Euplectella 

 (K Cucumer, Owen);" by Prof. Owen, F.E.S., F.L.S. (See 

 " Transactions," vol. xxii. p. 117.) 



Eead, thirdly, the commencement of a Memoir " On the Cha- 

 racters, Principles of Division, and Primary Groups of the Class 

 Mammalia;'' by Prof. Owen, F.E.S., F.L.S. &c. (See "Zoolo- 

 gical Proceedings," vol. ii. p. 1.) 



March 3rd, 1857. 



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



Alfred Newton, Esq., M.A., and the Eev. Henry B. Tristram, 

 M.A., were elected FeUows. 



Mr. Bentham, F.L.S., exhibited a specimen of Orchis pyrmni- 

 dalis, L., in which every flower of the spike was entirely destitute 

 of spur ; and also a specimen of Cardamine hirsuta, L., transmitted 

 to him by Miss Llewellyn of Penllergare, in which the leaves had 

 become proliferous. (See " Botanical Proceedings," vol. ii. p. 63.) 



Eead, first, a " Svnopsis of the genus Clitoria, L. ;" by Greorge 

 Bentham, Esq., F.L.S. (See "Botanical Proceedings," vol. ii. 

 p. 33.) 



Eead, secondly, the first of a series of Papers, entitled " Prse- 

 cursores ad Floram Indicam;" by J. D. Hooker, Esq., M.D,, 

 F.E.S., F.L.S., and T. Thomson, Esq., M.D., F.E.S., F.L.S. (See 

 " Botanical Proceedings," vol. ii. p. 1.) 



Eead, thirdly, a Note " On the Principles of Generic Nomen- 

 clature in Botany;" by George Bentham, Esq., F.L.S. (See 

 "Botanical Proceedings," vol. ii. p. 30.) 



