xl PROCEEDlNaS OF THE LINIiTEAN S(X)IETT OE LONDON. 



and back again, given by the Cunard Steam Company ; that the 

 invitation had been thankfulty accepted ; and that Dr. Berthold 

 Seemann, F.L.S., had kindly consented, at the request of the 

 Council, to proceed to America as the representative of the 

 Society. 



June 16th, 1857. 



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



Read, first, a " Catalogue of the Hymenoptera collected at Sara- 

 wak, in the Island of Borneo, Malacca, and Singapore, by Mr. A. 

 R. "Wallace;" by Frederick Smith, Esq.; communicated by W. 

 "W. Saunders, Esq., E.L.S. (See " Zoological Proceedings," vol. ii. 

 p. 42.) 



Eead, secondly, a "Note on the Occurrence of Rotatoria in 

 Vaueheria ;''^ by Daniel Oliver, Jun., Esq., F.L.S. 



Eead, thirdly, a Memoir " On the growth and composition of 

 the Ovarium of Siphonodon, Grriif. ;" by Joseph Dalton Hooker, 

 Esq., M.D., F.E.S., F.L.S. (See "Transactions," vol. xxii. p. 133.) 



Eead, fourthly, a Note " On a Monstrous Development in ITa- 

 henaria chlorantJia -^^ by the Eev. John Stevens Henslow, M.A., 

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



Eead, fifthly, a Note " On a Monstrous Development of the 

 Spike of a species of Banana;" by Sir Eobert H. Schomburgk; 

 communicated by Oeorge Bentham, Esq., F.L.S. (See " Botani- 

 cal Proceedings," vol. ii.) 



Eead, sixthly, a Memoir " On the Greographical Distribution 

 of the Members of the Class Aves\^ by Philip Lutley Sclater, 

 Esq.j F.L.S. (See " Zoological Proceedings," vol. ii.) 



